Prelude To A Volume Printed In Raised Letters For The Blind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGHHIIFFJKLLMM| Dear friends left darkling in the long eclipse | A |
| That veils the noonday you whose finger tips | A |
| A meaning in these ridgy leaves can find | B |
| Where ours go stumbling senseless helpless blind | B |
| This wreath of verse how dare I offer you | C |
| To whom the garden's choicest gifts are due | C |
| The hues of all its glowing beds are ours | D |
| Shall you not claim its sweetest smelling flowers | D |
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| Nay those I have I bring you at their birth | E |
| Life's cheerful sunshine warmed the grateful earth | E |
| If my rash boyhood dropped some idle seeds | F |
| And here and there you light on saucy weeds | F |
| Among the fairer growths remember still | G |
| Song comes of grace and not of human will | G |
| We get a jarring note when most we try | H |
| Then strike the chord we know not how or why | H |
| Our stately verse with too aspiring art | I |
| Oft overshoots and fails to reach the heart | I |
| While the rude rhyme one human throb endears | F |
| Turns grief to smiles and softens mirth to tears | F |
| Kindest of critics ye whose fingers read | J |
| From Nature's lesson learn the poet's creed | K |
| The queenly tulip flaunts in robes of flame | L |
| The wayside seedling scarce a tint may claim | L |
| Yet may the lowliest leaflets that unfold | M |
| A dewdrop fresh from heaven's own chalice hold | M |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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