Reflex Musings: Reflections From Various Surfaces Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBABA CDCEDCDC FGFGGFGF HBHBBHBH| In the dense entangled street | A |
| Where the web of Trade is weaving | B |
| Forms unknown in crowds I meet | A |
| Much of each and all believing | B |
| Each his small designs achieving | B |
| Hurries on with restless feet | A |
| While through Fancy s power deceiving | B |
| Self in every form I greet | A |
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| Oft in yonder rocky dell | C |
| Neath the birches shadow seated | D |
| I have watched the darksome well | C |
| Where my stooping form repeated | E |
| Now advanced and now retreated | D |
| With the spring s alternate swell | C |
| Till destroyed before completed | D |
| As the big drops grew and fell | C |
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| By the hollow mountain side | F |
| Questions strange I shout for ever | G |
| While the echoes far and wide | F |
| Seem to mock my vain endeavour | G |
| Still I shout for though they never | G |
| Cast my borrowed voice aside | F |
| Words from empty words they sever | G |
| Words of Truth from words of Pride | F |
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| Yes the faces in the crowd | H |
| And the wakened echoes glancing | B |
| From the mountain rocky browed | H |
| And the lights in water dancing | B |
| Each my wandering sense entrancing | B |
| Tells me back my thoughts aloud | H |
| All the joys of Truth enhancing | B |
| Crushing all that makes me proud | H |
James Clerk Maxwell
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