By The Fireside : The Singers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEE FFGG HHII JJKK JJLL MMJ| God sent his Singers upon earth | A |
| With songs of sadness and of mirth | A |
| That they might touch the hearts of men | B |
| And bring them back to heaven again | B |
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| The first a youth with soul of fire | C |
| Held in his hand a golden lyre | D |
| Through groves he wandered and by streams | E |
| Playing the music of our dreams | E |
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| The second with a bearded face | F |
| Stood singing in the market place | F |
| And stirred with accents deep and loud | G |
| The hearts of all the listening crowd | G |
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| A gray old man the third and last | H |
| Sang in cathedrals dim and vast | H |
| While the majestic organ rolled | I |
| Contrition from its mouths of gold | I |
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| And those who heard the Singers three | J |
| Disputed which the best might be | J |
| For still their music seemed to start | K |
| Discordant echoes in each heart | K |
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| But the great Master said 'I see | J |
| No best in kind but in degree | J |
| I gave a various gift to each | L |
| To charm to strengthen and to teach | L |
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| 'These are the three great chords of might | M |
| And he whose ear is tuned aright | M |
| Will hear no discord in the three | J |
| But the most perfect harmony ' | - |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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