Said The Skylark Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCDDAB AEFFEGHDEDABBBIJII AKLILJIIKJA MNDDNNOOP DQBRRBSSJTTJUUILLVVL WWLDDO soft small cloud the dim sweet dawn adorning | A |
Swan like a sailing on its tender grey | B |
Why dost thou dost thou float | C |
So high the wing'd wild note | C |
Of silver lamentation from my dark and pulsing throat | C |
May never reach thee | D |
Tho' every note beseech thee | D |
To bend thy white wings downward thro' the smiling of the morning | A |
And by the black wires of my prison lightly stray | B |
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O dear small cloud when all blue morn is ringing | A |
With sweet notes piped from other throats than mine | E |
If those glad singers please | F |
The tall and nodding trees | F |
If to them dance the pennants of the swaying columbine | E |
If to their songs are set | G |
The dance of daffodil and trembling violet | H |
Will they pursue thee | D |
With tireless wings as free and bold as thine | E |
Will they woo thee | D |
With love throbs in the music of their singing | A |
Ah nay fair Cloud ah nay | B |
Their hearts and wings will stay | B |
With yellow bud of primrose and soft blush of the May | B |
Their songs will thrill and die | I |
Tranc'd in the perfume of the rose's breast | J |
While I must see thee fly | I |
With white broad lonely pinions down the sky | I |
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O fair small cloud unheeding o'er me straying | A |
Jewell'd with topaz light of fading stars | K |
Thy downy edges red | L |
As the great eagle of the Dawn sails high | I |
And sets his fire bright head | L |
And wind blown pinions towards thy snowy breast | J |
And thou canst blush while I | I |
Must pierce myself with song and die | I |
On the bald sod behind my prison bars | K |
Nor feel upon my crest | J |
Thy soft sunn'd touches delicately playing | A |
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O fair small cloud grown small as lily flow'r | M |
Even while I smite the bars to see thee fade | N |
The wind shall bring thee | D |
The strain I sing thee | D |
I in wired prison stay'd | N |
Worse than the breathless primrose glade | N |
That in my morn | O |
I shrilly sang to scorn | O |
I'll burst my heart up to thee in this hour | P |
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O fair small cloud float nearer yet and hear me | D |
A prison'd lark once lov'd a snowy cloud | Q |
Nor did the Day | B |
With sapphire lips and kiss | R |
Of summery bliss | R |
Draw all her soul away | B |
Vainly the fervent East | S |
Deck'd her with roses for their bridal feast | S |
She would not rest | J |
In his red arms but slipp'd adown the air | T |
And wan and fair | T |
Her light foot touch'd a purple mountain crest | J |
And touching turn'd | U |
Into swift rain that like to jewels burn'd | U |
In the great wondering azure of the sky | I |
And while a rainbow spread | L |
Its mighty arms above she singing fled | L |
To the lone feather'd slave | V |
In his sad weird grave | V |
Whose heart upon his silver song had sped | L |
To her in days of old | W |
In dawns of gold | W |
And murmuring to him said | L |
O love I come O love I come to cheer thee | D |
Love to be near thee | D |
Isabella Valancy Crawford
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