Minstrelsy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDA CCEEFFDA AAAAGGDA CCHHIIDA JJKKLLDA AACCKKDA| For ever since my childish looks | A |
| Could rest on Nature's pictured books | A |
| For ever since my childish tongue | B |
| Could name the themes our bards have sung | B |
| So long the sweetness of their singing | C |
| Hath been to me a rapture bringing | C |
| Yet ask me not the reason why | D |
| I have delight in minstrelsy | A |
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| I know that much whereof I sing | C |
| Is shapen but for vanishing | C |
| I know that summer's flower and leaf | E |
| And shine and shade are very brief | E |
| And that the heart they brighten may | F |
| Before them all be sheathed in clay | F |
| I do not know the reason why | D |
| I have delight in minstrelsy | A |
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| A few there are whose smile and praise | A |
| My minstrel hope would kindly raise | A |
| But of those few Death may impress | A |
| The lips of some with silentness | A |
| While some may friendship's faith resign | G |
| And heed no more a song of mine | G |
| Ask not ask not the reason why | D |
| I have delight in minstrelsy | A |
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| The sweetest song that minstrels sing | C |
| Will charm not Joy to tarrying | C |
| The greenest bay that earth can grow | H |
| Will shelter not in burning woe | H |
| A thousand voices will not cheer | I |
| When one is mute that aye is dear | I |
| Is there alas no reason why | D |
| I have delight in minstrelsy | A |
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| I do not know The turf is green | J |
| Beneath the rain's fast dropping sheen | J |
| Yet asks not why that deeper hue | K |
| Doth all its tender leaves renew | K |
| And I like minded am content | L |
| While music to my soul is sent | L |
| To question not the reason why | D |
| I have delight in minstrelsy | A |
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| Years pass my life with them shall pass | A |
| And soon the cricket in the grass | A |
| And summer bird shall louder sing | C |
| Than she who owns a minstrel's string | C |
| Oh then may some the dear and few | K |
| Recall her love whose truth they knew | K |
| When all forget to question why | D |
| She had delight in minstrelsy | A |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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