Said The Skylark Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCDDAB AEFFEGHDEDABBBIJII AKLILJIIKJA MNDDNNOOP DQBRRBSSJTTJUUILLVVL WWLDD| O 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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