The Star Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGHH IIJK| I had a star to sing by a beautiful star that led | A |
| But when I sang of its splendour the world in its wisdom said | A |
| Sweet are your songs yet the singer sings but in madness when | B |
| He hymns but stars unbeholden of us his fellows of men | B |
| Glow worms we see and marshlights sing us sweet songs of those | C |
| For the guerdons we have to give you laurel and gold and rose | C |
| Or if you must sing of stars unseen of your brother man | D |
| Go starve with your eyes on your vision your star may save if it can | D |
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| So I said If I starve and die I never again shall see | E |
| The glory the high white radiance that hallows the world for me | E |
| I will sing their songs if it must be and when I have golden store | F |
| I will turn from the marsh and the glow worms and sing of my star once more | F |
| So I walked in the warm wet by ways not daring to lift my eyes | G |
| Lest love should drive me to singing my star supreme in the skies | G |
| And the world cried out We will crown him he sings of the lights that are | H |
| Glories of marshlight and glow worms not visions vain of a star | H |
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| I said Now my brows are laurelled my hands filled full of their gold | I |
| I will sing the starry songs that these earthworms bade withhold | I |
| It is time to sing of my star for I dreamed that my star still shone | J |
| Then I lifted my eyes in my triumph Night night and my star was gone | K |
E. (edith) Nesbit
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