The Leaden Echo And The Golden Echo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDEDFEGHEHGEHIEHGHH B HHGGHGJKGLJLMNMLJOOP QPOQHLLLLLQHLQHQQQ| Maidens' song from St Winefred's Well | A |
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| THE LEADEN ECHO | B |
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| How to k eacute ep is there aacute ny any is there none such nowhere known some | C |
| bow or brooch or braid or brace l aacute ce latch or catch or key to keep | D |
| Back beauty keep it beauty beauty beauty from vanishing away | E |
| Oacute is there no frowning of these wrinkles rank eacute d wrinkles deep | D |
| D oacute wn no waving off of these most mournful messengers still messengers sad and | F |
| stealing messengers of grey | E |
| No there 's none there's none O no there's none | G |
| Nor can you long be what you now are called fair | H |
| Do what you may do what do what you may | E |
| And wisdom is early to despair | H |
| Be beginning since no nothing can be done | G |
| To keep at bay | E |
| Age and age's evils hoar hair | H |
| Ruck and wrinkle drooping dying death's worst winding sheets tombs and worms | I |
| and tumbling to decay | E |
| So be beginning be beginning to despair | H |
| O there 's none no no no there 's none | G |
| Be beginning to despair to despair | H |
| Despair despair despair despair | H |
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| THE GOLDEN ECHO | B |
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| Spare | H |
| There iacute s one yes I have one Hush there | H |
| Only not within seeing of the sun | G |
| Not within the singeing of the strong sun | G |
| Tall sun's tingeing or treacherous the tainting of the earth's air | H |
| Somewhere elsewhere there is ah well where one | G |
| On eacute Yes I can tell such a key I do know such a place | J |
| Where whatever's prized and passes of us everything that 's fresh and fast flying | K |
| of us seems to us sweet of us and swiftly away with done away with undone | G |
| Undone done with soon done with and yet dearly and dangerously sweet | L |
| Of us the wimpled water dimpled not by morning match egrave d face | J |
| The flower of beauty fleece of beauty too too apt to ah to fleet | L |
| Never fleets m oacute re fastened with the tenderest truth | M |
| To its own best being and its loveliness of youth it is an everlastingness of | N |
| O it is an all youth | M |
| Come then your ways and airs and looks locks maiden gear gallantry and gaiety | L |
| and grace | J |
| Winning ways airs innocent maiden manners sweet looks loose locks long locks | O |
| lovelocks gaygear going gallant girlgrace | O |
| Resign them sign them seal them send them motion them with breath | P |
| And with sighs soaring soaring s iacute ghs deliver | Q |
| Them beauty in the ghost deliver it early now long before death | P |
| Give beauty back beauty beauty beauty back to God beauty's self and beauty's | O |
| giver | Q |
| See not a hair is not an eyelash not the least lash lost every hair | H |
| Is hair of the head numbered | L |
| Nay what we had lighthanded left in surly the mere mould | L |
| Will have waked and have waxed and have walked with the wind what while we slept | L |
| This side that side hurling a heavyheaded hundredfold | L |
| What while we while we slumbered | L |
| O then weary then why When the thing we freely f oacute rfeit is kept with fonder | Q |
| a care | H |
| Fonder a care kept than we could have kept it kept | L |
| Far with fonder a care and we we should have lost it finer fonder | Q |
| A care kept Where kept Do but tell us where kept where | H |
| Yonder What high as that We follow now we follow Yonder yes yonder | Q |
| yonder | Q |
| Yonder | Q |
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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