Songs That Are Not Sung Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJGG KK| DO not praise a smile is payment more than meet for what is done | A |
| Who shall paint the mote's glad raiment floating in the molten sun | A |
| Nay nor smile for blind is eyesight ears may hear not lips are dumb | B |
| From the silence from the twilight wordless but complete they come | B |
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| Songs were born before the singer like white souls awaiting birth | C |
| They abide the chosen bringer of their melody to earth | C |
| Deep the pain of our demerit strings so rude or rudely strung | D |
| Dull to every pleading spirit seeking speech but sent unsung | D |
| Round our hearts with gentle breathing still the plaintive silence plays | E |
| But we brush away its wreathing filled with cares of common days | E |
| Ever thinking of the morrow burdened down with cares and needs | F |
| Once or twice mayhap in sorrow we may hear the song that pleads | F |
| Once or twice a dreaming poet sees the beauty as it flies | G |
| But his vision who shall know it who shall read it from his eyes | G |
| Voiceless he his necromancy fails to cage the wondrous bird | H |
| Lure and snare are vain when fancy flies like echo from a word | H |
| Only sometime he may sing it using speech as 'twere a bell | I |
| Not to read the song but ring it like the sea tone from a shell | I |
| Sometimes too it comes and lingers round the strings all still and mute | J |
| Till some lover's trembling fingers draw it living from the lute | J |
| Still our best is but a vision which a lightning flash illumes | G |
| Just a gleam of life elysian flung across the voiceless glooms | G |
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| Why should gleams perplex and move us Must the soul still upward grow | K |
| To the beauty far above us and the songs no sense may know | K |
John Boyle O'reilly
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