The Imprisoned Lark. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCD EFEEF GHGGH IJIIJ DCDKC BGBBG LMLLM NONNO PQDQ| Did you send your song to the gates of gold | A |
| In the days of long ago | B |
| A song of sweetness and gladness untold | A |
| Till fain was my lady to have and to hold | A |
| Ah my lady did not know | B |
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| 'Tis love and joy make the soul of a song | C |
| If we only understood | D |
| Can each strain be tender and true and strong | C |
| When the days stretch out so weary and long | C |
| Dear little bird of the wood | D |
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| The sun came so boldly into your cell | E |
| 'Tis the springtime pretty bird | F |
| And full sweet the story he had to tell | E |
| Of doings in meadow and wood and dell | E |
| Till your longing grew and stirred | F |
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| This cage of my lady's has silver bars | G |
| And my lady's voice is mild | H |
| But oh to sail 'twixt the earth and stars | G |
| Forget the hurt of the prison bars | G |
| In the gladness of freedom wild | H |
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| To soar and circle o'er shadowy glade | I |
| Where dewdrops hide from the sun | J |
| O fields where the blossoming clover swayed | I |
| O voices familiar that music made | I |
| Till the full glad day was done | J |
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| Ah then you sang little bird of the wood | D |
| And you stilled the laughing throng | C |
| To make passionate longing understood | D |
| You took the height and depth of your mood | K |
| And flung them into a song | C |
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| These guests of my lady's did listen I know | B |
| When out through the silver bars | G |
| You sent forth a measure liquid and low | B |
| As laughter of waters that ebb and flow | B |
| Under the shimmering stars | G |
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| You sang of the sweetest gladdest and best | L |
| Your longing heart held in store | M |
| Till into the careless listener's breast | L |
| There flashed a sudden and vague unrest | L |
| That grew into something more | M |
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| Eyes saw for a few brief moments' space | N |
| The heights that were never trod | O |
| And seeing grew dim for the swift bold race | N |
| That was planned in the hours when youth and grace | N |
| Came fresh from the hand of God | O |
| - | |
| Only a homesick bird of the field | P |
| Trilling a glorious note | Q |
| Only a homesick bird of the wood | D |
| With heaven in your full throat | Q |
Jean Blewett
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