Prefatory Sonnets Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BACBBABADEEDDE A CFFCCFFCCCCCCC| I | A |
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| I purposed once to take my pen and write | B |
| Not songs like some tormented and awry | A |
| With passion but a cunning harmony | C |
| Of words and music caught from glen and height | B |
| And lucid colours born of woodland light | B |
| And shining places where the sea streams lie | A |
| But this was when the heat of youth glowed white | B |
| And since I've put the faded purpose by | A |
| I have no faultless fruits to offer you | D |
| Who read this book but certain syllables | E |
| 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 |
| May catch the sense like subtle forest spells | E |
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| II | A |
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| So take these kindly even though there be | C |
| Some notes that unto other lyres belong | F |
| 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 |
| I would not do the lordly masters wrong | F |
| By filching fair words from the shining throng | F |
| Whose music haunts me as the wind a tree | C |
| 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 |
| Far down be where the white haired cataract booms | C |
| He faint with sweetness caught from forest smells | C |
| Bears thence unwitting plunder of perfumes | C |
Henry Kendall
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