A Question Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DAEA FEFE FAGA FHFH HAGA FHHH HHI HJK HAEA| O bird with heart of wassail | A |
| That toss the Bacchic branch | B |
| And slip your shaken music | C |
| An elfin avalanche | B |
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| Come tell me O tell me | D |
| My poet of the blue | A |
| What's YOUR thought of me Sweet | E |
| Here's MY thought of you | A |
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| A small thing a wee thing | F |
| A brown fleck of nought | E |
| With winging and singing | F |
| That who could have thought | E |
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| A small thing a wee thing | F |
| A brown amaze withal | A |
| That fly a pitch more azure | G |
| Because you're so small | A |
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| Bird I'm a small thing | F |
| My angel descries | H |
| With winging and singing | F |
| That who could surmise | H |
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| Ah small things ah wee things | H |
| Are the poets all | A |
| Whose tour's the more azure | G |
| Because they're so small | A |
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| The angels hang watching | F |
| The tiny men things | H |
| 'The dear speck of flesh see | H |
| With such daring wings | H |
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| 'Come tell us O tell us | H |
| Thou strange mortality | H |
| What's THY thought of us Dear | I |
| Here's OUR thought of thee ' | - |
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| 'Alack you tall angels | H |
| I can't think so high | J |
| I can't think what it feels like | K |
| Not to be I ' | - |
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| Come tell me O tell me | H |
| My poet of the blue | A |
| What's YOUR thought of me Sweet | E |
| Here's MY thought of you | A |
Francis Thompson
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