The Waking Of The Lark Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCD A EEFFG A HHIIJ K JJLLM K NNOON K PPQQJ K RRSSO K TTUUV| I | A |
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| O bonnie bird that in the brake exultant dost prepare thee | B |
| As poets do whose thoughts are true for wings that will upbear thee | B |
| Oh tell me tell me bonnie bird | C |
| Canst thou not pipe of hope deferred | C |
| Or canst thou sing of naught but Spring among the golden meadows | D |
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| II | A |
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| Methinks a bard and thou art one should suit his song to sorrow | E |
| And tell of pain as well as gain that waits us on the morrow | E |
| But thou art not a prophet thou | F |
| If naught but joy can touch thee now | F |
| If in thy heart thou hast no vow that speaks of Nature's anguish | G |
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| III | A |
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| Oh I have held my sorrows dear and felt tho' poor and slighted | H |
| The songs we love are those we hear when love is unrequited | H |
| But thou art still the slave of dawn | I |
| And canst not sing till night be gone | I |
| Till o'er the pathway of the fawn the sunbeams shine and quiver | J |
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| IV | K |
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| Thou art the minion of the sun that rises in his splendour | J |
| And canst not spare for Dian fair the songs that should attend her | J |
| The moon so sad and silver pale | L |
| Is mistress of the nightingale | L |
| And thou wilt sing on hill and dale no ditties in the darkness | M |
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| V | K |
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| For Queen and King thou wilt not spare one note of thine outpouring | N |
| Thou art as free as breezes be on Nature's velvet flooring | N |
| The daisy with its hood undone | O |
| The grass the sunlight and the sun | O |
| These are the joys thou holy one that pay thee for thy singing | N |
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| VI | K |
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| Oh hush Oh hush how wild a gush of rapture in the distance | P |
| A roll of rhymes a toll of chimes a cry for love's assistance | P |
| A sound that wells from happy throats | Q |
| A flood of song where beauty floats | Q |
| And where our thoughts like golden boats do seem to cross a river | J |
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| VII | K |
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| This is the advent of the lark the priest in gray apparel | R |
| Who doth prepare to trill in air his sinless Summer carol | R |
| This is the prelude to the lay | S |
| The birds did sing in C sar's day | S |
| And will again for aye and aye in praise of God's creation | O |
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| VIII | K |
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| O dainty thing on wonder's wing by life and love elated | T |
| Oh sing aloud from cloud to cloud till day be consecrated | T |
| Till from the gateways of the morn | U |
| The sun with all his light unshorn | U |
| His robes of darkness round him torn doth scale the lofty heavens | V |
Eric Mackay
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