The Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD DEDE FGFG HDHD IJIJ DDDD DKDK LMLM ABAB| I heard an old familiar air | A |
| Strummed idly by a careless hand | B |
| Yet in the melody were rare | A |
| Sweet echoings from childhood land | B |
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| The well remembered mother touch | C |
| The wise denials and consents | D |
| The trivial sorrows that were much | C |
| Small pleasures that were large events | D |
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| The fancies dreams strange wonderings | D |
| The daily problems unexplained | E |
| Momentous as the cares of kings | D |
| That on unhappy thrones have reigned | E |
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| Came back with each unstudied tone | F |
| And came that song remembered best | G |
| Which with a sweetness all its own | F |
| Once lulled the play worn child to rest | G |
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| And there secure as Tarik's height | H |
| He slumbered shielded from alarms | D |
| Safe from the mystery of night | H |
| Close folded in the mother's arms | D |
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| Then Israel's mighty songs of old | I |
| And all the modern masters' art | J |
| Were less than simple lays that told | I |
| The secret of the mother's heart | J |
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| The sweetest melody that flows | D |
| From lips that win the world's applause | D |
| Charms not like that which childhood knows | D |
| Unfettered by the curb of laws | D |
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| For though we rise to nobler themes | D |
| To grander harmonies attain | K |
| Their lives not in the academes | D |
| The magic of the simpler strain | K |
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| And we may spurn the cruder song | L |
| Or name it anything we will | M |
| Denounce the artifice as wrong | L |
| Yet to the child 'tis music still | M |
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| Thus list'ning to an idle air | A |
| Struck lightly by a careless hand | B |
| I heard amid the cadence there | A |
| The sweetest song of childhood land | B |
Arthur Macy
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