They Are Blind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCC DEDECCC FGFGBBB CHCHIIJ KThey are blind and they are dead | A |
We will wake them as we go | B |
There are words have not been said | A |
There are sounds they do not know | B |
We will pipe and we will sing | C |
With the Music and the Spring | C |
Set their hearts a wondering | C |
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They are tired of what is old | D |
We will give it voices new | E |
For the half hath not been told | D |
Of the Beautiful and True | E |
Drowsy eyelids shut and sleeping | C |
Heavy eyes oppressed with weeping | C |
Flashes through the lashes leaping | C |
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Ye that have a pleasant voice | F |
Hither come without delay | G |
Ye will never have a choice | F |
Like to that ye have to day | G |
Round the wide world we will go | B |
Singing through the frost and snow | B |
Till the daisies are in blow | B |
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Ye that cannot pipe or sing | C |
Ye must also come with speed | H |
Ye must come and with you bring | C |
Weighty word and weightier deed | H |
Helping hands and loving eyes | I |
These will make them truly wise | I |
Then will be our Paradise | J |
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March | K |
George Macdonald
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