The Woodlark Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEFFGGHIIHGGHAA HJKL MMN FF OOPPPFFFF QRAQ FASS| Teevo cheevo cheevio chee | A |
| O where what can th aacute at be | A |
| Weedio weedio there again | B |
| So tiny a trickle of s oacute ng strain | C |
| And all round not to be found | D |
| For brier bough furrow or gr eacute en ground | D |
| Before or behind or far or at hand | E |
| Either left either right | F |
| Anywhere in the s uacute nlight | F |
| Well after all Ah but hark | G |
| 'I am the little w oacute odlark | G |
| H | |
| To day the sky is two and two | I |
| With white strokes and strains of the blue | I |
| H | |
| Round a ring around a ring | G |
| And while I sail must listen I sing | G |
| H | |
| The skylark is my cousin and he | A |
| Is known to men more than me | A |
| H | |
| when the cry within | J |
| Says Go on then I go on | K |
| Till the longing is less and the good gone | L |
| - | |
| But down drop if it says Stop | M |
| To the all a leaf of the tr eacute etop | M |
| And after that off the bough | N |
| - | |
| I aacute m so v eacute ry O so oacute very glad | F |
| That I d oacute th iacute nk there is not to be had | F |
| - | |
| The blue wheat acre is underneath | O |
| And the braided ear breaks out of the sheath | O |
| The ear in milk lush the sash | P |
| And crush silk poppies aflash | P |
| The blood gush blade gash | P |
| Flame rash rudred | F |
| Bud shelling or broad shed | F |
| Tatter tassel tangled and dingle a dangled | F |
| Dandy hung dainty head | F |
| - | |
| And down the furrow dry | Q |
| Sunspurge and oxeye | R |
| And laced leaved lovely | A |
| Foam tuft fumitory | Q |
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| Through the velvety wind V winged | F |
| To the nest's nook I balance and buoy | A |
| With a sweet joy of a sweet joy | S |
| Sweet of a sweet of a sweet joy | S |
| Of a sweet a sweet sweet joy ' | - |
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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