Let Me Be To Thee As The Circling Bird Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA CDCECE| Let me be to Thee as the circling bird | A |
| Or bat with tender and air crisping wings | B |
| That shapes in half light his departing rings | B |
| From both of whom a changeless note is heard | A |
| I have found my music in a common word | A |
| Trying each pleasurable throat that sings | B |
| And every praised sequence of sweet strings | B |
| And know infallibly which I preferred | A |
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| The authentic cadence was discovered late | C |
| Which ends those only strains that I approve | D |
| And other science all gone out of date | C |
| And minor sweetness scarce made mention of | E |
| I have found the dominant of my range and state | C |
| Love O my God to call Thee Love and Love | E |
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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