The Poet's Secret Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH AIAI| The poet's secret I must know | A |
| If that will calm my restless mind | B |
| I hail the seasons as they go | A |
| I woo the sunshine brave the wind | B |
| - | |
| I scan the lily and the rose | C |
| I nod to every nodding tree | D |
| I follow every stream that flows | C |
| And wait beside the steadfast sea | D |
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| I question melancholy eyes | E |
| I touch the lips of women fair | F |
| Their lips and eyes may make me wise | E |
| But what I seek for is not there | F |
| - | |
| In vain I watch the day and night | G |
| In vain the world through space may roll | H |
| I never see the mystic light | G |
| Which fills the poet's happy soul | H |
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| Through life I hear the rhythmic flow | A |
| Whose meaning into song must turn | I |
| Revealing all he longs to know | A |
| The secret each alone must learn | I |
Elizabeth Stoddard
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