Prefatory Sonnets I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAABABDEEDDE CFFCCFFCCCCCCC| I purposed once to take my pen and write | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Not songs like some tormented and awry | B |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp With passion but a cunning harmony | C |
| Of words and music caught from glen and height | A |
| And lucid colours born of woodland light | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And shining places where the sea streams lie | B |
| But this was when the heat of youth glowed white | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And since I've put the faded purpose by | B |
| I have no faultless fruits to offer you | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Who read this book but certain syllables | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Herein are borrowed from unfooted dells | E |
| And secret hollows dear to noontide dew | D |
| And these at least though far between and few | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp May catch the sense like subtle forest spells | E |
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| So take these kindly even though there be | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Some notes that unto other lyres belong | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Stray echoes from the elder sons of song | F |
| And think how from its neighbouring native sea | C |
| The pensive shell doth borrow melody | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp I would not do the lordly masters wrong | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp By filching fair words from the shining throng | F |
| Whose music haunts me as the wind a tree | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Lo when a stranger in soft Syrian glooms | C |
| Shot through with sunset treads the cedar dells | C |
| And hears the breezy ring of elfin bells | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Far down by where the white haired cataract booms | C |
| He faint with sweetness caught from forest smells | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Bears thence unwitting plunder of perfumes | C |
Henry Kendall
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