Why Silent? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBA DEDED FGFGF| Why am I silent from year to year | A |
| Needs must I sing on these blue March days | B |
| What will you say when I tell you here | C |
| That already I think for a little praise | B |
| I have paid too dear | A |
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| For I know not why when I tell my thought | D |
| It seems as though I fling it away | E |
| And the charm wherewith a fancy is fraught | D |
| When secret dies with the fleeting lay | E |
| Into which it is wrought | D |
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| So my butterfly dreams their golden wings | F |
| But seldom unfurl from their chrysalis | G |
| And thus I retain my loveliest things | F |
| While the world in its worldliness does not miss | G |
| What a poet sings | F |
Henry Timrod
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