A Reverie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGHIIH JJKLLK MMGNNG OOPEEP QQRGGR| When I do sit apart | A |
| And commune with my heart | A |
| She brings me forth the treasures once my own | B |
| Shows me a happy place | C |
| Where leaf buds swelled apace | C |
| And wasting rims of snow in sunlight shone | B |
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| Rock in a mossy glade | D |
| The larch trees lend thee shade | D |
| That just begin to feather with their leaves | E |
| From out thy crevice deep | F |
| White tufts of snowdrops peep | F |
| And melted rime drips softly from thine eaves | E |
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| Ah rock I know I know | G |
| That yet thy snowdrops grow | G |
| And yet doth sunshine fleck them through the tree | H |
| Whose sheltering branches hide | I |
| The cottage at its side | I |
| That nevermore will shade or shelter me | H |
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| I know the stockdoves' note | J |
| Athwart the glen doth float | J |
| With sweet foreknowledge of her twins oppressed | K |
| And longings onward sent | L |
| She broods before the event | L |
| While leisurely she mends her shallow nest | K |
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| Once to that cottage door | M |
| In happy days of yore | M |
| My little love made footprints in the snow | G |
| She was so glad of spring | N |
| She helped the birds to sing | N |
| I know she dwells there yet the rest I do not know | G |
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| They sang and would not stop | O |
| While drop and drop and drop | O |
| I heard the melted rime in sunshine fall | P |
| And narrow wandering rills | E |
| Where leaned the daffodils | E |
| Murmured and murmured on and that was all | P |
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| I think but cannot tell | Q |
| I think she loved me well | Q |
| And some dear fancy with my future twined | R |
| But I shall never know | G |
| Hope faints and lets it go | G |
| That passionate want forbid to speak its mind | R |
Jean Ingelow
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