A Southern Singer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC DDEE FFDD EGEE HHII JJKK LLMM EENN BBCC| Written In Madison Caweln's 'Lyrics and Idyls ' | A |
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| Herein are blown from out the South | B |
| Songs blithe as those of Pan's pursed mouth | B |
| As sweet in voice as in perfume | C |
| The night breath of magnolia bloom | C |
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| Such sumptuous languor lures the sense | D |
| Such luxury of indolence | D |
| The eyes blur as a nymph's might blur | E |
| With water lilies watching her | E |
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| You waken thrilling at the trill | F |
| Of some wild bird that seems to spill | F |
| The silence full of winey drips | D |
| Of song that Fancy sips and sips | D |
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| Betimes in brambled lanes wherethrough | E |
| The chipmunk stripes himself from view | G |
| You pause to lop a creamy spray | E |
| Of elder blossoms by the way | E |
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| Or where the morning dew is yet | H |
| Gray on the topmost rail you set | H |
| A sudden palm and vaulting meet | I |
| Your vaulting shadow in the wheat | I |
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| On lordly swards of suave incline | J |
| Entessellate with shade and shine | J |
| You shall misdoubt your lowly birth | K |
| Clad on as one of princely worth | K |
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| The falcon on your wrist shall ride | L |
| Your milk white Arab side by side | L |
| With one of raven black You fain | M |
| Would kiss the hand that holds the rein | M |
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| Nay nay Romancer Poet Seer | E |
| Sing us back home from there to here | E |
| Grant your high grace and wit but we | N |
| Most honor your simplicity | N |
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| Herein are blown from out the South | B |
| Songs blithe as those of Pan's pursed mouth | B |
| As sweet in voice as in perfume | C |
| The night breath of magnolia bloom | C |
James Whitcomb Riley
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