Down The Songo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCDEFGHI JJHIAAAB KLLMMNNOPQQRPSSKK A ATUUAVWXT A YYKK Z AA2AA2I | A |
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Floating | B |
Floating and all the stillness waits | C |
And listens at the ivory gates | C |
Full of a dim uncertain presage | D |
Of some strange undelivered message | E |
There is no sound save from the bush | F |
The alto of the shy wood thrush | G |
And ever and anon the dip | H |
Of a lazy oar | I |
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The rhythmic drowsiness keeps time | J |
To hazy subtleties of rhyme | J |
That seem to slip | H |
Through the lulled soul to seek the sleepy shore | I |
The idle clouds go floating by | A |
Above us sky beneath us sky | A |
The sun shines on us as we lie | A |
Floating | B |
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It is a dream | K |
It is a dream my love see how | L |
The ripples quiver at the prow | L |
And all the long reflections shake | M |
Unsteadily beneath the lake | M |
The mists about the uplands show | N |
Dim violet towers that come and go | N |
Phantasmagoric palaces | O |
Rise trembling there | P |
As though one breath of waking weather | Q |
Would crash their airy walls together | Q |
With sudden stress | R |
While silent detonations shook the air | P |
Vast fabrics toppling to the ground | S |
And vanishing without a sound | S |
Ah love these are not what we deem | K |
It is a dream | K |
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II | A |
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Let us dream on then dream and die | A |
Ere the dream pass | T |
Let us for once like idle flowers | U |
Let slip the unregarded hours | U |
Like the wise flowers that lie | A |
Unfretted by a feeble thought | V |
Future and past alike forgot | W |
Drinking the dew contentedly | X |
In the cool grass | T |
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III | A |
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Look yonder where the clouds float could we glide | Y |
As they across the sky's blue shoreless tide | Y |
What better were it than to dream | K |
Across yon lake and into this still stream | K |
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IV | Z |
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Trees and a glimpse of sky | A |
And the slow river quiet as a pool | A2 |
And thou and I and thou and I | A |
Kiss me How soft the air is and how cool | A2 |
Bliss Carman And Richard Hovey
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