The Star Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDE FFG HHI JJKL| 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 ' | E |
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| So I said 'If I starve and die I never again shall see | F |
| The glory the high white radiance that hallows the world for me | F |
| I will sing their songs if it must be and when I have golden store | G |
| I will turn from the marsh and the glow worms and sing of my star once more ' | - |
| So I walked in the warm wet by ways not daring to lift my eyes | H |
| Lest love should drive me to singing my star supreme in the skies | H |
| And the world cried out 'We will crown him he sings of the lights that are | I |
| Glories of marshlight and glow worms not visions vain of a star ' | - |
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| I said 'Now my brows are laurelled my hands filled full of their gold | J |
| I will sing the starry songs that these earthworms bade withhold | J |
| It is time to sing of my star ' for I dreamed that my star still shone | K |
| Then I lifted my eyes in my triumph Night night and my star was gone | L |
Edith Nesbit
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