Alison's Mother To The Brook Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCACADD EEFGHHFIGIF JKKJLAMAAML EEGGAAMMNNAAMMIIAAHH KKIIAAOO PPOOIIQQ MAAM ARGRAG ASAPIIKSTTKS SUUAAVVGGS WSBrook of the listening grass | A |
Brook of the sun fleckt wings | B |
Brook of the same wild way and flickering spell | C |
Must you begone Will you forever pass | A |
After so many years and dear to tell | C |
Brook of all hoverings | A |
Brook that I kneel above | D |
Brook of my love | D |
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Ah but I have a charm to trouble you | E |
A spell that shall subdue | E |
Your all escaping heart unheedful one | F |
And unremembering | G |
Now when I make my prayer | H |
To your wild brightness there | H |
That will but run and run | F |
O mindless Water | I |
Hark now will I bring | G |
A grace as wild my little yearling daughter | I |
My Alison | F |
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Heed well that threat | J |
And tremble for your hill born liberty | K |
So bright to see | K |
Your shadow dappled way unthwarted yet | J |
And the high hills whence all your dearness bubbled | L |
You never to possess | A |
For let her dip but once O fair and fleet | M |
Here in your shallows yes | A |
Here in your silverness | A |
Her two blithe feet | M |
O Brook of mine how shall your heart be troubled | L |
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The heart the bright unmothering heart of you | E |
That never knew | E |
O never more than mine of long ago | G |
How could we know | G |
For who should guess | A |
The shock and smiting of that perfectness | A |
The lily thrust of those ecstatic feet | M |
Unpityingly sweet | M |
Sweet beyond all the blurred blind dreams that grope | N |
The upward paths of hope | N |
And who could guess | A |
The dulcet holiness | A |
The lilt and gladness of those jocund feet | M |
Unpityingly sweet | M |
Ah for your coolness that shall change and stir | I |
With every glee of her | I |
Under the fresh amaze | A |
That drips and glistens from her wiles and ways | A |
When the endearing air | H |
That everywhere | H |
Must twine and fold and follow her shall be | K |
Rippled to ring on ring of melody | K |
Music like shadows from the joy of her | I |
Small starry Reveller | I |
When from her triumphings | A |
All frolic wings | A |
There soars beyond the glories of the height | O |
The laugh of her delight | O |
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And it shall sound until | P |
Your heart stand still | P |
Shaken to human sight | O |
Struck through with tears and light | O |
One with the one desire | I |
Unto that central Fire | I |
Of Love the Sun whence all we lighted are | Q |
Even from clod to star | Q |
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And all your glory O most swift and sweet | M |
And all your exultation only this | A |
To be the lowly and forgotten kiss | A |
Beneath those feet | M |
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You that must ever pass | A |
You of the same wild way | R |
The silver bright good bye without a look | G |
You that would never stay | R |
For the beseeching grass | A |
Brook | G |
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You Four Walls | A |
Wall not in my heart | S |
When the lovely night time falls | A |
All so welcomely | P |
Blinding sweet hearth fire | I |
Light of heart's desire | I |
Blind not blind not me | K |
Unto them that weep apart | S |
While you glow within | T |
Wreckt despairing kin | T |
Dark with misery | K |
Do not blind my heart | S |
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You close Heart | S |
Never hide from mine | U |
Worlds that I divine | U |
Through thy human dearness | A |
O belov d Nearness | A |
Hallow all I understand | V |
With thy hand in hand | V |
All the lights I seek | G |
With thy cheek to cheek | G |
All the loveliness I loved apart | S |
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You heart's Home | W |
Wall not in my heart | S |
Josephine Preston Peabody
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