The Singing Wire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHGH HIHI JKJK LMNM HOHO PKPK IHIH QRQR STST RURU TVTO GWGW| Hark to that faint ethereal twang | A |
| That from the bosom of the breeze | B |
| Has caught its rise and fall there rang | C |
| Aolian harmonies | B |
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| I looked again the mournful chords | D |
| In random rhythm lightly flung | E |
| From off the wire came shaped in words | F |
| And thus meseemed they sung | E |
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| I messenger of many fates | G |
| Strung to the tones of woe or weal | H |
| Fine nerve that thrills and palpitates | G |
| With all men know or feel | H |
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| Oh is it strange that I should wail | H |
| Leave me my tearless sad refrain | I |
| When in the pine top wakes the gale | H |
| That breathes of coming rain | I |
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| There is a spirit in the post | J |
| It too was once a murmuring tree | K |
| Its sapless sad and withered ghost | J |
| Echoes my melody | K |
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| Come close and lay your listening ear | L |
| Against the bare and branchless wood | M |
| Say croons it not so low and clear | N |
| As if it understood | M |
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| I listened to the branchless pole | H |
| That held aloft the singing wire | O |
| I heard its muffled music roll | H |
| And stirred with sweet desire | O |
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| O wire more soft than seasoned lute | P |
| Hast thou no sunlit word for me | K |
| Though long to me so coyly mute | P |
| Sure she may speak through thee | K |
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| I listened but it was in vain | I |
| At first the wind's old wayward will | H |
| Drew forth the tearless sad refrain | I |
| That ceased and all was still | H |
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| But suddenly some kindling shock | Q |
| Struck flashing through the wire a bird | R |
| Poised on it screamed and flew the flock | Q |
| Rose with him wheeled and whirred | R |
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| Then to my soul there came this sense | S |
| Her heart has answered unto thine | T |
| She comes to night Go hie thee hence | S |
| Meet her no more repine | T |
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| Mayhap the fancy was far fetched | R |
| And yet mayhap it hinted true | U |
| Ere moonrise Love a hand was stretched | R |
| In mine that gave me you | U |
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| And so more dear to me has grown | T |
| Than rarest tones swept from the lyre | V |
| The minor movement of that moan | T |
| In yonder singing wire | O |
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| Nor care I for the will of states | G |
| Or aught besides that smites that string | W |
| Since then so close it knit our fates | G |
| What time the bird took wing | W |
George Parsons Lathrop
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