Thoreau's Flute Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDEC FGGFHIJH KLLKMKKN OKKOPQQP| We sighing said Our Pan is dead | A |
| His pipe hangs mute beside the river | B |
| Around it wistful sunbeams quiver | B |
| But Music's airy voice is fled | A |
| Spring mourns as for untimely frost | C |
| The bluebird chants a requiem | D |
| The willow blossom waits for him | E |
| The Genius of the wood is lost | C |
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| Then from the flute untouched by hands | F |
| There came a low harmonious breath | G |
| For such as he there is no death | G |
| His life the eternal life commands | F |
| Above man's aims his nature rose | H |
| The wisdom of a just content | I |
| Made one small spot a continent | J |
| And turned to poetry life's prose | H |
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| Haunting the hills the stream the wild | K |
| Swallow and aster lake and pine | L |
| To him grew human or divine | L |
| Fit mates for this large hearted child | K |
| Such homage Nature ne'er forgets | M |
| And yearly on the coverlid | K |
| 'Neath which her darling lieth hid | K |
| Will write his name in violets | N |
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| To him no vain regrets belong | O |
| Whose soul that finer instrument | K |
| Gave to the world no poor lament | K |
| But wood notes ever sweet and strong | O |
| O lonely friend he still will be | P |
| A potent presence though unseen | Q |
| Steadfast sagacious and serene | Q |
| Seek not for him he is with thee | P |
Louisa May Alcott
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