To The Poets Who Only Read And Listen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ| WHEN evening's shadowy fingers fold | A |
| The flowers of every hue | B |
| Some shy half opened bud will hold | A |
| Its drop of morning's dew | B |
| - | |
| Sweeter with every sunlit hour | C |
| The trembling sphere has grown | D |
| Till all the fragrance of the flower | C |
| Becomes at last its own | D |
| - | |
| We that have sung perchance may find | E |
| Our little meed of praise | F |
| And round our pallid temples bind | E |
| The wreath of fading bays | F |
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| Ah Poet who hast never spent | G |
| Thy breath in idle strains | H |
| For thee the dewdrop morning lent | G |
| Still in thy heart remains | H |
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| Unwasted in its perfumed cell | I |
| It waits the evening gale | J |
| Then to the azure whence it fell | I |
| Its lingering sweets exhale | J |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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