The Voice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABABCD EFEFGFHH CIICCCJJCCKKLCM NOCBPCQCQ| As the kindling glances | A |
| Queen like and clear | B |
| Which the bright moon lances | A |
| From her tranquil sphere | B |
| At the sleepless waters | A |
| Of a lonely mere | B |
| On the wild whirling waves mournfully mournfully | C |
| Shiver and die | D |
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| As the tears of sorrow | E |
| Mothers have shed | F |
| Prayers that tomorrow | E |
| Shall in vain be sped | F |
| When the flower they flow for | G |
| Lies frozen and dead | F |
| Fall on the throbbing brow fall on the burning breast | H |
| Bringing no rest | H |
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| Like bright waves that fall | C |
| With a lifelike motion | I |
| On the lifeless margin of the sparkling Ocean | I |
| A wild rose climbing up a mouldering wall | C |
| A gush of sunbeams through a ruined hall | C |
| Strains of glad music at a funeral | C |
| So sad and with so wild a start | J |
| To this deep sobered heart | J |
| So anxiously and painfully | C |
| So drearily and doubtfully | C |
| And oh with such intolerable change | K |
| Of thought such contrast strange | K |
| O unforgotten voice thy accents come | L |
| Like wanderers from the world's extremity | C |
| Unto their ancient home | M |
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| In vain all all in vain | N |
| They beat upon mine ear again | O |
| Those melancholy tones so sweet and still | C |
| Those lute like tones which in the bygone year | B |
| Did steal into mine ear | P |
| Blew such a thrilling summons to my will | C |
| Yet could not shake it | Q |
| Made my tost heart its very life blood spill | C |
| Yet could not break it | Q |
Matthew Arnold
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