The Under-tone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCAA DDEE FGHH IIJJ KKLL BBMM| In the dull dim dawn of day I heard | A |
| The twitter and thrill of a brown backed bird | A |
| As he sat and sang in the leafless tree | B |
| A herald of beautiful days to be | B |
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| But the minor running under the strain | C |
| Went to my heart with a sudden pain | C |
| For never so sad a sound I heard | A |
| As the troubled thrill of the brown backed bird | A |
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| Not in the wearisome wash of waves | D |
| With moaning murmur of wrecks and graves | D |
| Not in the weird winds' wildest wail | E |
| Not in the roar of the rushing gale | E |
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| Not in the sob of dying years | F |
| Are sounds so solemn and full of tears | G |
| O herald of days that are green and glad | H |
| Why was your morning song so sad | H |
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| Have you a secret hidden away | I |
| Of sorrow to come with a coming day | I |
| Folded under a folded leaf | J |
| Lies there trouble and bitter grief | J |
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| The shadow of death and tears and gloom | K |
| Coming to me when roses bloom | K |
| Will the beautiful days I long for so | L |
| Hold like your song a strain of woe | L |
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| What is the secret you hide from me | B |
| O herald of days that are to be | B |
| And why was that desolate minor moan | M |
| Lurking under your gladdest tone | M |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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