A Day Of Sunshine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFG HHII JJEE EEKK LLBB| O gift of God O perfect day | A |
| Whereon shall no man work but play | A |
| Whereon it is enough for me | B |
| Not to be doing but to be | B |
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| Through every fibre of my brain | C |
| Through every nerve through every vein | C |
| I feel the electric thrill the touch | D |
| Of life that seems almost too much | D |
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| I hear the wind among the trees | E |
| Playing celestial symphonies | E |
| I see the branches downward bent | F |
| Like keys of some great instrument | G |
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| And over me unrolls on high | H |
| The splendid scenery of the sky | H |
| Where though a sapphire sea the sun | I |
| Sails like a golden galleon | I |
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| Towards yonder cloud land in the West | J |
| Towards yonder Islands of the Blest | J |
| Whose steep sierra far uplifts | E |
| Its craggy summits white with drifts | E |
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| Blow winds and waft through all the rooms | E |
| The snow flakes of the cherry blooms | E |
| Blow winds and bend within my reach | K |
| The fiery blossoms of the peach | K |
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| O Life and Love O happy throng | L |
| Of thoughts whose only speech is song | L |
| O heart of man canst thou not be | B |
| Blithe as the air is and as free | B |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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