Some Songs After Master Singers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C DEEDFFFGG HIIHFFFGG A J KKLLMNOOPPOOQQRRPPOO ST BB A T SUSU FVFV OKOK OTOT H K K WWVXXVV KKYOOYY VV K K K BB Z BA2OO H B2 C2 OOOOD2D2 KKTTOO E2E2OOE2E2E2E2YYE2E2 KKF2F2G2G2E2E2OOTTI | A |
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SONG | B |
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W S | C |
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With a hey and a hi and a hey ho rhyme | D |
O the shepherd lad | E |
He is ne'er so glad | E |
As when he pipes in the blossom time | D |
So rare | F |
While Kate picks by yet looks not there | F |
So rare so rare | F |
With a hey and a hi and a ho | G |
The grasses curdle where the daisies blow | G |
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With a hey and a hi and a hey ho vow | H |
Then he sips her face | I |
At the sweetest place | I |
And ho how white is the hawthorn now | H |
So rare | F |
And the daisied world rocks round them there | F |
So rare so rare | F |
With a hey and a hi and a ho | G |
The grasses curdle where the daisies blow | G |
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II | A |
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TO THE CHILD JULIA | J |
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R H | - |
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Little Julia since that we | K |
May not as our elders be | K |
Let us blithely fill the days | L |
Of our youth with pleasant plays | L |
First we'll up at earliest dawn | M |
While as yet the dew is on | N |
The sooth'd grasses and the pied | O |
Blossomings of morningtide | O |
Next with rinsed cheeks that shine | P |
As the enamell'd eglantine | P |
We will break our fast on bread | O |
With both cream and honey spread | O |
Then with many a challenge call | Q |
We will romp from house and hall | Q |
Gypsying with the birds and bees | R |
Of the green tress'd garden trees | R |
In a bower of leaf and vine | P |
Thou shalt be a lady fine | P |
Held in duress by the great | O |
Giant I shall personate | O |
Next when many mimics more | S |
Like to these we have played o'er | T |
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We'll betake us home along | B |
Hand in hand at evensong | B |
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III | A |
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THE DOLLY'S MOTHER | T |
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W W | - |
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A little maid of summers four | S |
Did you compute her years | U |
And yet how infinitely more | S |
To me her age appears | U |
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I mark the sweet child's serious air | F |
At her unplayful play | V |
The tiny doll she mothers there | F |
And lulls to sleep away | V |
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Grows 'neath the grave similitude | O |
An infant real to me | K |
And she a saint of motherhood | O |
In hale maturity | K |
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So pausing in my lonely round | O |
And all unseen of her | T |
I stand uncovered her profound | O |
And abject worshipper | T |
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IV | H |
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WIND OF THE SEA | K |
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A T | K |
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Wind of the Sea come fill my sail | W |
Lend me the breath of a freshening gale | W |
And bear my port worn ship away | V |
For O the greed of the tedious town | X |
The shutters up and the shutters down | X |
Wind of the Sea sweep over the bay | V |
And bear me away away | V |
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Whither you bear me Wind of the Sea | K |
Matters never the least to me | K |
Give me your fogs with the sails adrip | Y |
Or the weltering path thro' the starless night | O |
On somewhere is a new daylight | O |
And the cheery glint of another ship | Y |
As its colors dip and dip | Y |
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Wind of the Sea sweep over the bay | V |
And bear me away away | V |
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V | K |
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SUBTLETY | K |
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R B | K |
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Whilst little Paul convalescing was staying | B |
Close indoors and his boisterous classmates paying | B |
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Him visits with fresh school notes and surprises | Z |
With nettling pride they sprung the word 'Athletic ' | - |
With much advice and urgings sympathetic | B |
Anent 'Athletic exercises ' Wise as | A2 |
Lad might look quoth Paul 'I've pondered o'er that | O |
'Athletic ' but I mean to take before that | O |
Downstairic and outdooric exercises ' | - |
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VI | H |
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BORN TO THE PURPLE | B2 |
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W M | C2 |
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Most like it was this kingly lad | O |
Spake out of the pure joy he had | O |
In his child heart of the wee maid | O |
Whose eerie beauty sudden laid | O |
A spell upon him and his words | D2 |
Burst as a song of any bird's | D2 |
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A peerless Princess thou shalt be | K |
Through wit of love's rare sorcery | K |
To crown the crown of thy gold hair | T |
Thou shalt have rubies bleeding there | T |
Their crimson splendor midst the marred | O |
Pulp of great pearls and afterward | O |
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Leaking in fainter ruddy stains | E2 |
Adown thy neck and armlet chains | E2 |
Of turquoise chrysoprase and mad | O |
Light frenzied diamonds dartling glad | O |
Swift spirts of shine that interfuse | E2 |
As though with lucent crystal dews | E2 |
That glance and glitter like split rays | E2 |
Of sunshine born of burgeoning Mays | E2 |
When the first bee tilts down the lip | Y |
Of the first blossom and the drip | Y |
Of blended dew and honey heaves | E2 |
Him blinded midst the underleaves | E2 |
For raiment Fays shall weave for thee | K |
Out of the phosphor of the sea | K |
And the frayed floss of starlight spun | F2 |
With counterwarp of the firm sun | F2 |
A vesture of such filmy sheen | G2 |
As through all ages never queen | G2 |
Therewith strove truly to make less | E2 |
One fair line of her loveliness | E2 |
Thus gowned and crowned with gems and gold | O |
Thou shalt through centuries untold | O |
Rule ever young and ever fair | T |
As now thou rulest smiling there | T |
James Whitcomb Riley
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