I Heard A Voice Upon The Window Beat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBABA CDDCDC EFFFFFI heard a voice upon the window beat | A |
And then grow dim grow still | B |
Opening I saw the snowy sill | B |
Marked with the robin's feet | A |
Chill was the air and chill | B |
The thoughts that in my bosom beat | A |
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I thought of all that wide and hopeless snow | C |
Crusting the frozen lands | D |
Of small birds that in famished bands | D |
A chill and silent grow | C |
And how Earth's myriad hands | D |
Clutched only hills of frosted snow | C |
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And then I thought of Love that beat and cried | E |
Famishing at my breast | F |
How I by chilling care distrest | F |
Denied him and Love died | F |
O with what sore unrest | F |
Love's ghost woke with the bird that cried | F |
John Freeman
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