To - - Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM NOPQ RSRS TUTU| AH often do I wait and watch | A |
| And look up straining through the Real | B |
| With longing eyes my friend to catch | C |
| Faint glimpses of your white Ideal | B |
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| I know she loved to rest her feet | D |
| By slumbrous seas and hidden strand | E |
| But mostly hints of her I meet | D |
| On moony spots of mountain land | E |
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| I ve never reached her shining place | F |
| And only cross at times a gleam | G |
| As one might pass a fleeting face | F |
| Just on the outside of a Dream | G |
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| But you may climb her happy Choice | H |
| She knows your step the maiden true | I |
| And ever when she hears your voice | H |
| She turns and sits and waits for you | I |
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| How sweet to rest on breezy crest | J |
| With such a Love what time the Morn | K |
| Looks from his halls of rosy rest | J |
| Across green miles of gleaming corn | K |
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| How sweet to find a leafy nook | L |
| When bees are out and Day burns mute | M |
| Where you may hear a passion d brook | L |
| Play past you like a mellow flute | M |
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| Or turning from the sunken sun | N |
| On fields of dim delight to lie | O |
| To close your eyes and muse upon | P |
| The twilight s strange divinity | Q |
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| Or through the Night s mysterious noon | R |
| While Sound lies hushed among the trees | S |
| To sit and watch a mirror d moon | R |
| Float over silver sleeping seas | S |
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| Oh vain regret why should I stay | T |
| To think and dream of joys unknown | U |
| You walk with her from day to day | T |
| I faint afar off and alone | U |
Henry Kendall
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