Health Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFG GHEIJKLA MANOPQRRJMRS TTURUFRLVJWJX YZYYNYU| Four miles at a leap over the dark hollow land | A |
| To the frosted steep of the down and its junipers black | B |
| Travels my eye with equal ease and delight | C |
| And scarce could my body leap four yards | D |
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| This is the best and the worst of it | E |
| Never to know | F |
| Yet to imagine gloriously pure health | G |
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| To day had I suddenly health | G |
| I could not satisfy the desire of my heart | H |
| Unless health abated it | E |
| So beautiful is the air in its softness and clearness while | I |
| Spring | J |
| Promises all and fails in nothing as yet | K |
| And what blue and what white is I never knew | L |
| Before I saw this sky blessing the land | A |
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| For had I health I could not ride or run or fly | M |
| So far or so rapidly over the land | A |
| As I desire I should reach Wiltshire tired | N |
| I should have changed my mind before I could be in Wales | O |
| I could not love I could not command love | P |
| beauty would still be far off | Q |
| However many hills I climbed over | R |
| Peace would still be farther | R |
| Maybe I should not count it anything | J |
| To leap these four miles with the eye | M |
| And either I should not be filled almost to bursting with desire | R |
| Or with my power desire would still keep pace | S |
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| Yet I am not satisfied | T |
| Even with knowing I never could be satisfied | T |
| With health and all the power that lies | U |
| In maiden beauty poet and warrior | R |
| In Caesar Shakespeare Alcibiades | U |
| Mazeppa Leonardo Michelangelo | F |
| In any maiden whose smile is lovelier | R |
| Than sunlight upon dew | L |
| I could not be as the wagtail running up and down | V |
| The warm tiles of the roof slope twittering | J |
| Happily and sweetly as if the sun itself | W |
| Extracted the song | J |
| As the hand makes sparks from the fur of a cat | X |
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| I could not be as the sun | Y |
| Nor should I be content to be | Z |
| As little as the bird or as mighty as the sun | Y |
| For the bird knows not the sun | Y |
| And the sun regards not the bird | N |
| But I am almost proud to love both bird and sun | Y |
| Though scarce this Spring could my body leap four yards | U |
Edward Thomas
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