No End Of No-story Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCBCCCCCDDDDCCAAC CEFFGGHHFFFCCHHIIJJI IIEFFHHAAHBBKKHHCCFL ELELEMMMHHNNNNBBICCI ICBOOIIMMAACAAICIIII IMIMIMIMCACCDDDMIMII AAIICCCCCACCBBOCCPOC BCIIBCMMCCCCCQQCCMCA ACCCCMMBBIIIIAACCCCC CADDMMIIIAACCCCBBOOR RIIMHHCCCMMII| There is a river | A |
| whose waters run asleep | B |
| run run ever | A |
| singing in the shallows | C |
| dumb in the hollows | C |
| sleeping so deep | B |
| and all the swallows | C |
| that dip their feathers | C |
| in the hollows | C |
| or in the shallows | C |
| are the merriest swallows | C |
| and the nests they make | D |
| with the clay they cake | D |
| with the water they shake | D |
| from their wings that rake | D |
| the water out of the shallows | C |
| or out of the hollows | C |
| will hold together | A |
| in any weather | A |
| and the swallows | C |
| are the merriest fellows | C |
| and have the merriest children | E |
| and are built very narrow | F |
| like the head of an arrow | F |
| to cut the air | G |
| and go just where | G |
| the nicest water is flowing | H |
| and the nicest dust is blowing | H |
| and each so narrow | F |
| like the head of an arrow | F |
| is a wonderful barrow | F |
| to carry the mud he makes | C |
| for his children's sakes | C |
| from the wet water flowing | H |
| and the dry dust blowing | H |
| to build his nest | I |
| for her he loves best | I |
| and the wind cakes it | J |
| the sun bakes it | J |
| into a nest | I |
| for the rest | I |
| of her he loves best | I |
| and all their merry children | E |
| each little fellow | F |
| with a beak as yellow | F |
| as the buttercups growing | H |
| beside the flowing | H |
| of the singing river | A |
| always and ever | A |
| growing and blowing | H |
| as fast as the sheep | B |
| awake or asleep | B |
| crop them and crop | K |
| and cannot stop | K |
| their yellowness blowing | H |
| nor yet the growing | H |
| of the obstinate daisies | C |
| the little white praises | C |
| they grow and they blow | F |
| they spread out their crown | L |
| and they praise the sun | E |
| and when he goes down | L |
| their praising is done | E |
| they fold up their crown | L |
| and sleep every one | E |
| till over the plain | M |
| he is shining amain | M |
| and they're at it again | M |
| praising and praising | H |
| such low songs raising | H |
| that no one can hear them | N |
| but the sun so near them | N |
| and the sheep that bite them | N |
| but do not fright them | N |
| are the quietest sheep | B |
| awake or asleep | B |
| with the merriest bleat | I |
| and the little lambs | C |
| are the merriest lambs | C |
| forgetting to eat | I |
| for the frolic in their feet | I |
| and the lambs and their dams | C |
| are the whitest sheep | B |
| with the woolliest wool | O |
| for the swallow to pull | O |
| when he makes his nest | I |
| for her he loves best | I |
| and they shine like snow | M |
| in the grasses that grow | M |
| by the singing river | A |
| that sings for ever | A |
| and the sheep and the lambs | C |
| are merry for ever | A |
| because the river | A |
| sings and they drink it | I |
| and the lambs and their dams | C |
| would any one think it | I |
| are bright and white | I |
| because of their diet | I |
| which gladdens them quiet | I |
| for what they bite | I |
| is buttercups yellow | M |
| and daisies white | I |
| and grass as green | M |
| as the river can make it | I |
| with wind as mellow | M |
| to kiss it and shake it | I |
| as never was known | M |
| but here in the hollows | C |
| beside the river | A |
| where all the swallows | C |
| are the merriest fellows | C |
| and the nests they make | D |
| with the clay they cake | D |
| in the sunshine bake | D |
| till they are like bone | M |
| and as dry in the wind | I |
| as a marble stone | M |
| dried in the wind | I |
| the sweetest wind | I |
| that blows by the river | A |
| flowing for ever | A |
| and who shall find | I |
| whence comes the wind | I |
| that blows on the hollows | C |
| and over the shallows | C |
| where dip the swallows | C |
| and comes and goes | C |
| and the sweet life blows | C |
| into the river | A |
| that sings as it flows | C |
| and the sweet life blows | C |
| into the sheep | B |
| awake or asleep | B |
| with the woolliest wool | O |
| and the trailingest tails | C |
| and never fails | C |
| gentle and cool | P |
| to wave the wool | O |
| and to toss the grass | C |
| as the lambs and the sheep | B |
| over it pass | C |
| and tug and bite | I |
| with their teeth so white | I |
| and then with the sweep | B |
| of their trailing tails | C |
| smooth it again | M |
| and it grows amain | M |
| and amain it grows | C |
| and the wind that blows | C |
| tosses the swallows | C |
| over the hollows | C |
| and over the shallows | C |
| and blows the sweet life | Q |
| and the joy so rife | Q |
| into the swallows | C |
| that skim the shallows | C |
| and have the yellowest children | M |
| and the wind that blows | C |
| is the life of the river | A |
| that flows for ever | A |
| and washes the grasses | C |
| still as it passes | C |
| and feeds the daisies | C |
| the little white praises | C |
| and buttercups sunny | M |
| with butter and honey | M |
| that whiten the sheep | B |
| awake or asleep | B |
| that nibble and bite | I |
| and grow whiter than white | I |
| and merry and quiet | I |
| on such good diet | I |
| watered by the river | A |
| and tossed for ever | A |
| by the wind that tosses | C |
| the wool and the grasses | C |
| and the swallow that crosses | C |
| with all the swallows | C |
| over the shallows | C |
| dipping their wings | C |
| to gather the water | A |
| and bake the cake | D |
| for the wind to make | D |
| as hard as a bone | M |
| and as dry as a stone | M |
| and who shall find | I |
| whence comes the wind | I |
| that blows from behind | I |
| and ripples the river | A |
| that flows for ever | A |
| and still as it passes | C |
| waves the grasses | C |
| and cools the daisies | C |
| the white sun praises | C |
| that feed the sheep | B |
| awake or asleep | B |
| and give them their wool | O |
| for the swallows to pull | O |
| a little away | R |
| to mix with the clay | R |
| that cakes to a nest | I |
| for those they love best | I |
| and all the yellow children | M |
| soon to go trying | H |
| their wings at the flying | H |
| over the hollows | C |
| and over the shallows | C |
| with all the swallows | C |
| that do not know | M |
| whence the wind doth blow | M |
| that comes from behind | I |
| a blowing wind | I |
George Macdonald
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