No Answer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGD HIJD KLMD NOPD NQRD| You tell me not green multitude of leaves | A |
| Mingling and whirling with the willful breeze | B |
| Nor you bright grasses trembling blade to blade | C |
| What meaneth June to hap us every year | D |
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| The spirit of the flowers is watching now | E |
| As winking in the sun they suck the dew | F |
| The thickets parley with the splendid fields | G |
| What meaneth June to hap us every year | D |
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| Up where the brook laps round the shining flags | H |
| And tinkling foam bells pass the weedy shore | I |
| And where the willow swings above the trout | J |
| What meaneth June to hap us every year | D |
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| The clouds hold knowledge in their snowy peaks | K |
| They hide it in their moving fleecy folds | L |
| They share it with the sunset's golden isles | M |
| What meaneth June to hap us every year | D |
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| Fullness and sweetness and the power of life | N |
| Must I in ignorance remain alone | O |
| And yield the quest of speech for certain proof | P |
| What meaneth June to hap us every year | D |
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| Sweetness and beauty and the power of life | N |
| Is it creation's anthem parts for all | Q |
| Is this the knowledge will you answer me | R |
| What meaneth June to hap us every year | D |
Elizabeth Stoddard
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