Magdalen Walks Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHG IJJIThe little white clouds are racing over the sky | A |
And the fields are strewn with the gold of the flower of March | B |
The daffodil breaks under foot and the tasselled larch | B |
Sways and swings as the thrush goes hurrying by | A |
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A delicate odour is borne on the wings of the morning breeze | C |
The odour of deep wet grass and of brown new furrowed earth | D |
The birds are singing for joy of the Spring's glad birth | D |
Hopping from branch to branch on the rocking trees | C |
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And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring | E |
And the rose bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar | F |
And the crocus bed is a quivering moon of fire | F |
Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring | E |
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And the plane to the pine tree is whispering some tale of love | G |
Till it rustles with laughter and tosses its mantle of green | H |
And the gloom of the wych elm's hollow is lit with the iris sheen | H |
Of the burnished rainbow throat and the silver breast of a dove | G |
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See the lark starts up from his bed in the meadow there | I |
Breaking the gossamer threads and the nets of dew | J |
And flashing adown the river a flame of blue | J |
The kingfisher flies like an arrow and wounds the air | I |
Oscar Wilde
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