Persia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDEFGFGHIHI JKJKLMLM NOPOQRQR SDSDTUTU GIGIVPVP WNWNCOCO XKYKZHZH A2B2A2QC2RC2RI am writing this song at the close | A |
Of a beautiful day of the spring | B |
In a dell where the daffodil grows | C |
By a grove of the glimmering wing | B |
From glades where a musical word | D |
Comes ever from luminous fall | E |
I send you the song of a bird | D |
That I wish to be dear to you all | E |
I have given my darling the name | F |
Of a land at the gates of the day | G |
Where morning is always the same | F |
And spring never passes away | G |
With a prayer for a lifetime of light | H |
I christened her Persia you see | I |
And I hope that some fathers to night | H |
Will kneel in the spirit with me | I |
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She is only commencing to look | J |
At the beauty in which she is set | K |
And forest and flower and brook | J |
To her are all mysteries yet | K |
I know that to many my words | L |
Will seem insignificant things | M |
But you who are mothers of birds | L |
Will feel for the father who sings | M |
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For all of you doubtless have been | N |
Where sorrows are many and wild | O |
And you know what a beautiful scene | P |
Of this world can be made by a child | O |
I am sure if they listen to this | Q |
Sweet women will quiver and long | R |
To tenderly stoop to and kiss | Q |
The Persia I ve put in a song | R |
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And I m certain the critic will pause | S |
And excuse for the sake of my bird | D |
My sins against critical laws | S |
The slips in the thought and the word | D |
And haply some dear little face | T |
Of his own to his mind will occur | U |
Some Persia who brightens his place | T |
And I ll be forgiven for her | U |
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A life that is turning to grey | G |
Has hardly been happy you see | I |
But the rose that has dropped on my way | G |
Is morning and music to me | I |
Yea she that I hold by the hand | V |
Is changing white winter to green | P |
And making a light of the land | V |
All fathers will know what I mean | P |
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All women and men who have known | W |
The sickness of sorrow and sin | N |
Will feel having babes of their own | W |
My verse and the pathos therein | N |
For that must be touching which shows | C |
How a life has been led from the wild | O |
To a garden of glitter and rose | C |
By the flower like hand of a child | O |
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She is strange to this wonderful sphere | X |
One summer and winter have set | K |
Since God left her radiance here | Y |
Her sweet second year is not yet | K |
The world is so lovely and new | Z |
To eyes full of eloquent light | H |
And sisters I m hoping that you | Z |
Will pray for my Persia to night | H |
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For I who have suffered so much | A2 |
And know what the bitterness is | B2 |
Am sad to think sorrow must touch | A2 |
Some day even darlings like this | Q |
But sorrow is part of this life | C2 |
And therefore a father doth long | R |
For the blessing of mother and wife | C2 |
On the bird he has put in a song | R |
Henry Kendall
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