Thistledown Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBB DEDFG HHGIJ KLLMM NONPQQ| This might have been a place for sleep | A |
| But as from that small hollow there | B |
| Hosts of bright thistledown begin | C |
| Their dazzling journey through the air | B |
| An idle man can only stare | B |
| - | |
| They grip their withered edge of stalk | D |
| In brief excitement for the wind | E |
| They hold a breathless final talk | D |
| And when their filmy cables part | F |
| One almost hears a little cry | G |
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| Some cling together while they wait | H |
| And droop and gaze and hesitate | H |
| But others leap along the sky | G |
| Or circle round and calmly choose | I |
| The gust they know they ought to use | J |
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| While some in loving pairs will glide | K |
| Or watch the others as they pass | L |
| Or rest on flowers in the grass | L |
| Or circle through the shining day | M |
| Like silvery butterflies at play | M |
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| Some catch themselves to every mound | N |
| Then lingeringly and slowly move | O |
| As if they knew the precious ground | N |
| Were opening for their fertile love | P |
| They almost try to dig they need | Q |
| So much to plant their thistle seed | Q |
Harold Edward Monro
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