The Frogs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBDDB EFEFGG A HIIHHCCH JKJLLK A HMMHHNNH OPPOEE QRRQQRRQ STTSFF ETTEEUUE RARVVI | A |
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Breathers of wisdom won without a quest | B |
Quaint uncouth dreamers voices high and strange | C |
Flutists of land where beauty hath no change | C |
And wintery grief is a forgotten guest | B |
Sweet murmurers of everlasting rest | B |
For whom glad days have ever yet to run | D |
And moments are as aeons and the sun | D |
But ever sunken half way toward the west | B |
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Often to me who heard you in your day | E |
With close wrapt ears it could not choose but seem | F |
That earth our mother searching in that way | E |
Men's hearts might know her spirit's inmost dream | F |
Ever at rest beneath life's change and stir | G |
Made you her soul and bade you pipe for her | G |
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II | A |
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In those mute days when spring was in her glee | H |
And hope was strong we know not why or how | I |
And earthy the mother dreamed with brooding brow | I |
Musing on life and what the hours might be | H |
When loves should ripen to maternity | H |
Then like high flutes in silvery interchange | C |
Ye piped with voices still and sweet and strange | C |
And ever as ye piped on every tree | H |
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The great buds swelled among the pensive woods | J |
The spirits of first flowers awoke and flung | K |
From buried faces the close fitting hoods | J |
And listened to your pining till they fell | L |
The frail spring beauty with her perfumed bell | L |
The wind flower and the spotted adder tongue | K |
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III | A |
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All the day long wherever pools might be | H |
Among the golden meadows where the air | M |
Stood in a dream as it were moored there | M |
Forever in a noon tide reverie | H |
Or where the bird made riot of their glee | H |
In the still woods and the hot sun shone down | N |
Crossed with warm lucent shadows on the brown | N |
Leaf paven pools that bubbled dreamily | H |
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Or far away in whispering river meads | O |
And watery marshes where the brooding noon | P |
Full with the wonder of its own secret boon | P |
Nestled and slept among the noiseless reeds | O |
Ye sat and murmured motionless as they | E |
With eyes that dreamed beyond the night and day | E |
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IV | - |
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And when day passed and over heaven's height | Q |
Thin with the many stars and cool with dew | R |
The fingers of the deep hours slowly drew | R |
The wonder of the ever healing night | Q |
No grief or loneliness or wrapt delight | Q |
Or weight of silence ever brought to you | R |
Slumber or rest only your voices grew | R |
More high and solemn slowly with hushed flight | Q |
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Ye saw the echoing hours go by long drawn | S |
Nor ever stirred watching the fathomless eyes | T |
And with your countless clear antiphonies | T |
Filling the earth and heaven even till dawn | S |
Last risen found you with its first pale gleam | F |
Still with soft throats unaltered in your dream | F |
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V | - |
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And slowly as we heard you day by day | E |
The stillness of enchanted reveries | T |
Bound brain and spirit and half closed eyes | T |
In some divine sweet wonder dream astray | E |
To us no sorrow or upreared dismay | E |
Nor any discord came but evermore | U |
The voices of mankind the outer roar | U |
Grew strange and murmurous faint and far away | E |
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Morning and noon and midnight exquisitely | - |
Wrapt with your voices this alone we knew | R |
Cities might change and fall and men might die | A |
Secure were we content to dream with you | R |
That change and pain are shadows faint and fleet | V |
And dreams are real and life is only sweet | V |
Archibald Lampman
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