Introductory Verses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD EF GG| Oh you who read some song that I have sung | A |
| What know you of the soul from whence it sprung | A |
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| Dost dream the poet ever speaks aloud | B |
| His secret thought unto the listening crowd | B |
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| Go take the murmuring sea shell from the shore | C |
| You have its shape its colour and no more | C |
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| It tells not one of those vast mysteries | D |
| That lie beneath the surface of the seas | D |
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| Our songs are shells cast out by waves of thought | E |
| Here take them at your pleasure but think not | F |
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| You ve seen the beneath the surface of the waves | G |
| Where lie our shipwrecks and our coral caves | G |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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