To Charles Harpur Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIHI JKJK LMNM| I would sit at your feet for long days | A |
| To hear the sweet Muse of the Wild | B |
| Speak out through the sad and the passionate lays | A |
| Of her first and her favourite Child | B |
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| I would sit at your feet for my soul | C |
| Delights in the solitudes free | D |
| And I stand where the creeks and the cataracts roll | C |
| Whensoever I listen to thee | D |
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| I would sit at your feet for I love | E |
| By the gulches and torrents to roam | F |
| And I long in this city for woodland and grove | G |
| And the peace of a wild forest home | F |
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| I would sit at your feet and we'd dwell | H |
| On the scenes of a long vanished time | I |
| While your thoughts into music would surge and would swell | H |
| Like a breeze of our beautiful clime | I |
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| I would sit at your feet for I know | J |
| Though the World in the Present be blind | K |
| That the amaranth blossoms of Promise will blow | J |
| When the Ages have left you behind | K |
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| I would sit at your feet for I feel | L |
| I am one of a glorious band | M |
| That ever will own you and hold you their Chief | N |
| And a Monarch of Song in the land | M |
Henry Kendall
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