The Singing Wire (ii) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG GHGH IJIJ KLML GNGN OJOJ HGHG PQPQ RSRS QTQT SUSN FVFV| Ethereal faint that music rang | A |
| As with the bosom of the breeze | B |
| It rose and fell and murmuring sang | A |
| Aeolian harmonies | B |
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| I turned again the mournful chords | C |
| In random rhythm lightly flung | D |
| From off the wire came shaped in words | E |
| And thus meseemed they sung | D |
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| I messenger of many fates | F |
| Strung to the tones of woe or weal | G |
| Fine nerve that thrills and palpitates | F |
| With all men know or feel | G |
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| Is it so strange that I should wail | G |
| Leave me my tearless sad refrain | H |
| When in the pine top wakes the gale | G |
| That breathes of coming rain | H |
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| There is a spirit in the post | I |
| It too was once a murmuring tree | J |
| Its withered sad imprisoned ghost | I |
| Echoes my melody | J |
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| Come close and lay your listening ear | K |
| Against the bare and branchless wood | L |
| Can you not hear it crooning clear | M |
| As though it understood | L |
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| I listened to the branchless pole | G |
| That held aloft the singing wire | N |
| I heard its muffled music roll | G |
| And stirred with sweet desire | N |
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| O wire more soft than seasoned lute | O |
| Hast thou no sunlit word for me | J |
| Though long to me so coyly mute | O |
| Her heart may speak through thee | J |
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| I listened but it was in vain | H |
| At first the wind's old wayward will | G |
| Drew forth the tearless sad refrain | H |
| That ceased and all was still | G |
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| But suddenly some kindling shock | P |
| Struck flashing through the wire a bird | Q |
| Poised on it screamed and flew the flock | P |
| Rose with him wheeled and whirred | Q |
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| Then to my soul there came this sense | R |
| Her heart has answered unto thine | S |
| She comes to night Go speed thee hence | R |
| Meet her no more repine | S |
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| Perhaps the fancy was far fetched | Q |
| And yet perhaps it hinted true | T |
| Ere moonrise Love a hand was stretched | Q |
| In mine that gave me you | T |
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| And so more dear to me has grown | S |
| Than rarest tones swept from the lyre | U |
| The minor movement of that moan | S |
| In yonder singing wire | N |
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| Nor care I for the will of states | F |
| Or aught beside that smites that string | V |
| Since then so close it knit our fates | F |
| What time the bird took wing | V |
George Parsons Lathrop
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