A Bridal Measure Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCBB BBDD CCEE CCFF CCBB AAFF| Come essay a sprightly measure | A |
| Tuned to some light song of pleasure | A |
| Maidens let your brows be crowned | B |
| As we foot this merry round | B |
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| From the ground a voice is singing | C |
| From the sod a soul is springing | C |
| Who shall say 't is but a clod | B |
| Quick'ning upward toward its God | B |
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| Who shall say it Who may know it | B |
| That the clod is not a poet | B |
| Waiting but a gleam to waken | D |
| In a spirit music shaken | D |
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| Phyllis Phyllis why be waiting | C |
| In the woods the birds are mating | C |
| From the tree beside the wall | E |
| Hear the am'rous robin call | E |
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| Listen to yon thrush's trilling | C |
| Phyllis Phyllis are you willing | C |
| When love speaks from cave and tree | F |
| Only we should silent be | F |
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| When the year itself renewing | C |
| All the world with flowers is strewing | C |
| Then through Youth's Arcadian land | B |
| Love and song go hand in hand | B |
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| Come unfold your vocal treasure | A |
| Sing with me a nuptial measure | A |
| Let this springtime gambol be | F |
| Bridal dance for you and me | F |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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