From The Forests Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH BIBI JKJK LMLM IGIG NONO FPFP QRQR MLMLWhere in a green moist myrtle dell | A |
The torrent voice rings strong | B |
And clear above a star bright well | A |
I write this woodland song | B |
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The melodies of many leaves | C |
Float in a fragrant zone | D |
And here are flowers by deep mossed eaves | C |
That day has never known | D |
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I'll weave a garland out of these | E |
The darlings of the birds | F |
And send it over singing seas | E |
With certain sunny words | F |
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With certain words alive with light | G |
Of welcome for a thing | H |
Of promise born beneath the white | G |
Soft afternoon of Spring | H |
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The faithful few have waited long | B |
A life like this to see | I |
And they will understand the song | B |
That flows to day from me | I |
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May every page within this book | J |
Be as a radiant hour | K |
Or like a bank of mountain brook | J |
All flower and leaf and flower | K |
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May all the strength and all the grace | L |
Of Letters make it beam | M |
As beams a lawn whose lovely face | L |
Is as a glorious dream | M |
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And may that strange divinity | I |
That men call Genius write | G |
Some deathless thing in days to be | I |
To fill those days with light | G |
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Here where the free frank waters run | N |
I pray this book may grow | O |
A sacred candour like the sun | N |
Above the morning snow | O |
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May noble thoughts in faultless words | F |
In clean white diction make | P |
It shine as shines the home of birds | F |
And moss and leaf and lake | P |
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This fair fresh life with joy I hail | Q |
And this belief express | R |
Its days will be a brilliant tale | Q |
Of effort and success | R |
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Here ends my song I have a dream | M |
Of beauty like the grace | L |
Which lies upon the land of stream | M |
In yonder mountain place | L |
Henry Kendall
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