Spelt From Sibyl's Leaves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACBBADBDBDB| Earnest earthless equal attuneable ' vaulty voluminous stupendous | A |
| Evening strains to be t me s v st ' womb of all home of all hearse of all night | B |
| Her fond yellow hornlight wound to the west ' her wild hollow hoarlight hung to the height | B |
| Waste her earliest stars earl stars ' st rs principal overbend us | A |
| F re f aturing heaven For earth ' her being has unbound her dapple is at an end as | C |
| tray or aswarm all throughther in throngs ' self n self steed d and p shed q ite | B |
| Disremembering d sm mbering ' ll now Heart you round me right | B |
| With ur vening is over us ur night ' wh lms wh lms nd will end us | A |
| Only the beak leaved boughs dragonish ' damask the tool smooth bleak light black | D |
| Ever so black on it ur tale O ur oracle ' L t life w ned ah l t life wind | B |
| Off h r once sk ined stained v ined variety ' upon ll on tw spools p rt pen p ck | D |
| Now her ll in tw flocks tw folds black white ' right wrong reckon but reck but mind | B |
| But th se two w re of a w rld where b t these ' tw tell each off the ther of a rack | D |
| Where selfwrung selfstrung sheathe and shelterless ' th ughts aga nst thoughts n groans gr nd | B |
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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