Distant Voices Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CCC DDD EEE FFF GGG HHH III EEE AAA JJK| I left my home for travelling | A |
| Because I heard the strange birds sing | A |
| In foreign skies and felt their wing | A |
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| Brush past my soul impatiently | B |
| I saw the bloom on flower and tree | B |
| That only grows beyond the sea | B |
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| Methought the distant voices spake | C |
| More wisdom than near tongues can make | C |
| I followed lest my heart should break | C |
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| And what is past is past and done | D |
| I dreamt and here the dream begun | D |
| I saw a salmon in the sun | D |
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| Leap from the river to the shore | E |
| Ah strange mishap so wounded sore | E |
| To his sweet stream to turn no more | E |
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| A bird from 'neath his mother's breast | F |
| Spread his weak wings in vain request | F |
| Never again to reach his nest | F |
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| I saw a blossom bloom too soon | G |
| Upon a summer's afternoon | G |
| 'Twill breathe no more beneath the moon | G |
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| I woke warmed 'neath a foreign sky | H |
| Where locust blossoms bud and die | H |
| Strange birds called to me flashing by | H |
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| And dusky faces passed and woke | I |
| The echoes with the words they spoke | I |
| The same old tales as other folk | I |
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| A truce to roaming Never more | E |
| I'll leave the home I loved of yore | E |
| But strangers meet me at the door | E |
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| I left my home still travelling | A |
| For yet I hear the strange birds sing | A |
| And foreign flowers rare perfumes bring | A |
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| I hear a distant voice more wise | J |
| Than others are 'neath foreign skies | J |
| I'll find perhaps in paradise | K |
Dora Sigerson Shorter
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