Lucy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCB CDEDFD CGCGEG CHIHJH CECEKL| Thanks for your stanzas Lucy | A |
| My sister dear in song | B |
| How many pleasant fancies | C |
| With these sweet numbers throng | B |
| Which like spring's tuneful brooklets | C |
| Trip merrily along | B |
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| Sometimes my sportive Lucy | C |
| Your words will whirl around | D |
| Like foam beads on the water | E |
| Or rose leaves on the ground | D |
| Or waltzers in the ball room | F |
| To music's airy sound | D |
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| There is my gentle Lucy | C |
| In all you say or do | G |
| A bright poetic impulse | C |
| Original and true | G |
| Which Art can not acquire | E |
| And Nature gave to you | G |
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| The olden fable Lucy | C |
| My muse to you would bring | H |
| The bird that can but will not | I |
| Should be compelled to sing | H |
| The story and its moral | J |
| To modern memories cling | H |
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| Awake the harp dear Lucy | C |
| Like the electric wire | E |
| It will convey to millions | C |
| The heart absorbing fire | E |
| And those who lean to listen | K |
| Will linger to admire | L |
George Pope Morris
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