The Frogs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBDDB EFEFGG A HIIHHCCH JKJLLK A HMMHHNNH OPPOEE QRRQQRRQ STTSFF ETTEEUUE RARVV

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Breathers of wisdom won without a questB
Quaint uncouth dreamers voices high and strangeC
Flutists of land where beauty hath no changeC
And wintery grief is a forgotten guestB
Sweet murmurers of everlasting restB
For whom glad days have ever yet to runD
And moments are as aeons and the sunD
But ever sunken half way toward the westB
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Often to me who heard you in your dayE
With close wrapt ears it could not choose but seemF
That earth our mother searching in that wayE
Men's hearts might know her spirit's inmost dreamF
Ever at rest beneath life's change and stirG
Made you her soul and bade you pipe for herG
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IIA
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In those mute days when spring was in her gleeH
And hope was strong we know not why or howI
And earthy the mother dreamed with brooding browI
Musing on life and what the hours might beH
When loves should ripen to maternityH
Then like high flutes in silvery interchangeC
Ye piped with voices still and sweet and strangeC
And ever as ye piped on every treeH
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The great buds swelled among the pensive woodsJ
The spirits of first flowers awoke and flungK
From buried faces the close fitting hoodsJ
And listened to your pining till they fellL
The frail spring beauty with her perfumed bellL
The wind flower and the spotted adder tongueK
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IIIA
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All the day long wherever pools might beH
Among the golden meadows where the airM
Stood in a dream as it were moored thereM
Forever in a noon tide reverieH
Or where the bird made riot of their gleeH
In the still woods and the hot sun shone downN
Crossed with warm lucent shadows on the brownN
Leaf paven pools that bubbled dreamilyH
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Or far away in whispering river meadsO
And watery marshes where the brooding noonP
Full with the wonder of its own secret boonP
Nestled and slept among the noiseless reedsO
Ye sat and murmured motionless as theyE
With eyes that dreamed beyond the night and dayE
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And when day passed and over heaven's heightQ
Thin with the many stars and cool with dewR
The fingers of the deep hours slowly drewR
The wonder of the ever healing nightQ
No grief or loneliness or wrapt delightQ
Or weight of silence ever brought to youR
Slumber or rest only your voices grewR
More high and solemn slowly with hushed flightQ
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Ye saw the echoing hours go by long drawnS
Nor ever stirred watching the fathomless eyesT
And with your countless clear antiphoniesT
Filling the earth and heaven even till dawnS
Last risen found you with its first pale gleamF
Still with soft throats unaltered in your dreamF
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And slowly as we heard you day by dayE
The stillness of enchanted reveriesT
Bound brain and spirit and half closed eyesT
In some divine sweet wonder dream astrayE
To us no sorrow or upreared dismayE
Nor any discord came but evermoreU
The voices of mankind the outer roarU
Grew strange and murmurous faint and far awayE
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Morning and noon and midnight exquisitely-
Wrapt with your voices this alone we knewR
Cities might change and fall and men might dieA
Secure were we content to dream with youR
That change and pain are shadows faint and fleetV
And dreams are real and life is only sweetV

Archibald Lampman



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