O Turn Once More Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDDA AEFEFGGA AHFHFIIA AEJEJBBA| O turn once more | A |
| The meadows where we mused and strayed together | B |
| Abound and glow yet with the ruby sorrel | C |
| 'Twas there the bluebirds fought and played together | B |
| Their quarrel was a flying bluebird quarrel | C |
| Their nest is firm still in the burnished cherry | D |
| They will come back there some day and be merry | D |
| O turn once more | A |
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| O turn once more | A |
| The spring we lingered at is ever steeping | E |
| The long cool grasses where the violets hide | F |
| Where you awoke the flower heads from their sleeping | E |
| And plucked them proud in their inviolate pride | F |
| You left the roots the roots will flower again | G |
| O turn once more and pluck the flower again | G |
| O turn once more | A |
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| O turn once more | A |
| We were the first to find the fairy places | H |
| Where the tall lady slippers scarf'd and snooded | F |
| Painted their lovely thoughts upon their faces | H |
| And then bewitched by their own beauty brooded | F |
| This will recur in some enchanted fashion | I |
| Time will repeat his miracles of passion | I |
| O turn once more | A |
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| O turn once more | A |
| What heart is worth the longing for the winning | E |
| That is not moved by currents of surprise | J |
| Who never breaks the silken thread in spinning | E |
| Shows a bare spindle when the daylight dies | J |
| The constant blood will yet flow full and tender | B |
| The thread will mended be though gossamer slender | B |
| O turn once more | A |
Duncan Campbell Scott
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