To Hear Her Sing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCAA DEFG BBBB AAHH BBBB BBFF IIII| To hear her sing to hear her sing | A |
| It is to hear the birds of Spring | A |
| In dewy groves on blooming sprays | B |
| Pour out their blithest roundelays | B |
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| It is to hear the robin trill | C |
| At morning or the whip poor will | C |
| At dusk when stars are blossoming | A |
| To hear her sing to hear her sing | A |
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| To hear her sing it is to hear | D |
| The laugh of childhood ringing clear | E |
| In woody path or grassy lane | F |
| Our feet may never fare again | G |
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| Faint far away as Memory dwells | B |
| It is to hear the village bells | B |
| At twilight as the truant hears | B |
| Them hastening home with smiles and tears | B |
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| Such joy it is to hear her sing | A |
| We fall in love with everything | A |
| The simple things of every day | H |
| Grow lovelier than words can say | H |
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| The idle brooks that purl across | B |
| The gleaming pebbles and the moss | B |
| We love no less than classic streams | B |
| The Rhines and Arnos of our dreams | B |
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| To hear her sing with folded eyes | B |
| It is beneath Venetian skies | B |
| To hear the gondoliers' refrain | F |
| Or troubadours of sunny Spain | F |
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| To hear the bulbul's voice that shook | I |
| The throat that trilled for Lalla Rookh | I |
| What wonder we in homage bring | I |
| Our hearts to her to hear her sing | I |
James Whitcomb Riley
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