Happiness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNBN MAOP OOOO OOQO OORO| I have found happiness who looked not for it | A |
| There was a green fresh hedge | B |
| And willows by the river side | C |
| And whistling sedge | B |
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| The heaviness I felt was all around | D |
| No joy sang in the wind | E |
| Only dull slow life everywhere | F |
| And in my mind | E |
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| Then from the sedge a bird cried and all changed | G |
| Heaviness turned to mirth | H |
| The willows the stream's cheek caressed | I |
| The sun the earth | H |
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| What was it in the bird's song worked such change | J |
| The grass was wonderful | K |
| I did not dream such beauty was | L |
| In things so dull | K |
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| What was it in the bird's song gave the water | M |
| That living sentient look | N |
| Lent the rare brightness to the hedge | B |
| That sweetness shook | N |
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| Down on the green path by the running water | M |
| Or the small daisies lit | A |
| With light of the white northern stars | O |
| In dark skies set | P |
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| What was it made the whole world marvellous | O |
| Mere common things were joys | O |
| The cloud running upon the grass | O |
| Children's faint noise | O |
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| The trees that grow straight up and stretch wide arms | O |
| The snow heaped in the skies | O |
| The light falling so simply on all | Q |
| My lifted eyes | O |
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| That all this startling aching beauty saw | O |
| I felt the sharp excess | O |
| Of joy like the strong sun at noon | R |
| Insupportable bliss | O |
John Freeman
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