Preludes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFGHHH A IJKIEE LMMNOO PQQPRR| I | A |
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| There is no rhyme that is half so sweet | B |
| As the song of the wind in the rippling wheat | B |
| There is no metre that's half so fine | C |
| As the lilt of the brook under rock and vine | C |
| And the loveliest lyric I ever heard | D |
| Was the wildwood strain of a forest bird | D |
| If the wind and the brook and the bird would teach | E |
| My heart their beautiful parts of speech | E |
| And the natural art that they say these with | F |
| My soul would sing of beauty and myth | G |
| In a rhyme and metre that none before | H |
| Have sung in their love or dreamed in their lore | H |
| And the world would be richer one poet the more | H |
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| II | A |
| - | |
| A thought to lift me up to those | I |
| Sweet wildflowers of the pensive woods | J |
| The lofty lowly attitudes | K |
| Of bluet and of bramble rose | I |
| To lift me where my mind may reach | E |
| The lessons which their beauties teach | E |
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| A dream to lead my spirit on | L |
| With sounds of faery shawms and flutes | M |
| And all mysterious attributes | M |
| Of skies of dusk and skies of dawn | N |
| To lead me like the wandering brooks | O |
| Past all the knowledge of the books | O |
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| A song to make my heart a guest | P |
| Of happiness whose soul is love | Q |
| One with the life that knoweth of | Q |
| But song that turneth toil to rest | P |
| To make me cousin to the birds | R |
| Whose music needs not wisdom's words | R |
Madison Julius Cawein
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