Refrain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGGFGHHIBJB KBLBEMEGGMGHHKBLB LBNBEOEGGOGHHPBQB| Of all the songs which poets sing | A |
| The ones which are most sweet | B |
| Are those which at close intervals | C |
| A low refrain repeat | B |
| Some tender word some syllable | D |
| Over and over ever and ever | E |
| While the song lasts | F |
| Altering never | E |
| Music if sung music if said | G |
| Subtle like some golden thread | G |
| A shuttle casts | F |
| In and out on a fabric red | G |
| Till it glows all through | H |
| With the golden hue | H |
| Oh of all the songs sung | I |
| No songs are so sweet | B |
| As the songs with refrains | J |
| Which repeat and repeat | B |
| - | |
| Of all the lives lived | K |
| No life is so sweet | B |
| As the life where one thought | L |
| In refrain doth repeat | B |
| Over and over ever and ever | E |
| Till the life ends | M |
| Altering never | E |
| Joy which is felt but is not said | G |
| Subtler than any golden thread | G |
| Which the shuttle sends | M |
| In and out in a fabric red | G |
| Till it glows all through | H |
| With a golden hue | H |
| Oh of all the lives lived | K |
| Can be no life so sweet | B |
| As the life where one thought | L |
| In refrain doth repeat | B |
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| Now name for me a thought | L |
| To make life so sweet | B |
| A thought of such joy | N |
| Its refrain to repeat | B |
| Oh foolish to ask me Ever ever | E |
| Who loveth believes | O |
| But telleth never | E |
| It might be a name just a name not said | G |
| But in every thought like a golden thread | G |
| Which the shuttle weaves | O |
| In and out on a fabric red | G |
| Till it glows all through | H |
| With a golden hue | H |
| Oh of all sweet lives | P |
| Who can tell how sweet | B |
| Is the life which one name | Q |
| In refrain doth repeat | B |
Helen Hunt Jackson
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