The Pleiades Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEE FFGG HHII GGAA EEJJ| By day you cannot see the sky | A |
| For it is up so very high | A |
| You look and look but it's so blue | B |
| That you can never see right through | B |
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| But when night comes it is quite plain | C |
| And all the stars are there again | D |
| They seem just like old friends to me | E |
| I've known them all my life you see | E |
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| There is the dipper first and there | F |
| Is Cassiopeia in her chair | F |
| Orion's belt the Milky Way | G |
| And lots I know but cannot say | G |
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| One group looks like a swarm of bees | H |
| Papa says they're the Pleiades | H |
| But I think they must be the toy | I |
| Of some nice little angel boy | I |
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| Perhaps his jackstones which to day | G |
| He has forgot to put away | G |
| And left them lying on the sky | A |
| Where he will find them bye and bye | A |
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| I wish he'd come and play with me | E |
| We'd have such fun for it would be | E |
| A most unusual thing for boys | J |
| To feel that they had stars for toys | J |
Amy Lowell
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