Home Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MANA OAPA QLRL STUT| A spirit is out to night | A |
| His steeds are the winds oh list | B |
| How he madly sweeps o'er the clouds | C |
| And scatters the driving mist | B |
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| We will let the curtains fall | D |
| Between us and the storm | E |
| Wheel the sofa up to the hearth | F |
| Where the fire is glowing warm | E |
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| Little student leave your book | G |
| And come and sit by my side | H |
| If you dote on Tennyson so | I |
| I'll be jealous of him my bride | H |
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| There now I can call you my own | J |
| Let me push back the curls from your brow | K |
| And look in your dark eyes and see | L |
| What my bird is thinking of now | K |
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| Is she thinking of some high perch | M |
| Of freedom and lofty flight | A |
| You smile oh little wild bird | N |
| You are hopelessly bound to night | A |
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| You are bound with a golden ring | O |
| And your captor like some grim knight | A |
| Will lock you up in the deepest cell | P |
| Of his heart and hide you from sight | A |
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| Sweetheart sweetheart do you hear far away | Q |
| The mournful voice of the sea | L |
| It is telling me of the time | R |
| When I thought you were lost to me | L |
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| Nay love do not look so sad | S |
| It is over the doubt and the pain | T |
| Hark sweet to the song of the fire | U |
| And the whisper of the rain | T |
Marietta Holley
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