The Question Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABABCC DEFEFEFF GAGAGAHH IJIJIJKK FAFAFALM| I dreamed that as I wandered by the way | A |
| Bare Winter suddenly was changed to Spring | B |
| And gentle odours led my steps astray | A |
| Mixed with a sound of waters murmuring | B |
| Along a shelving bank of turf which lay | A |
| Under a copse and hardly dared to fling | B |
| Its green arms round the bosom of the stream | C |
| But kissed it and then fled as thou mightest in dream | C |
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| There grew pied wind flowers and violets | D |
| Daisies those pearled Arcturi of the earth | E |
| The constellated flower that never sets | F |
| Faint oxlips tender bluebells at whose birth | E |
| The sod scarce heaved and that tall flower that wets | F |
| Like a child half in tenderness and mirth | E |
| Its mother's face with Heaven's collected tears | F |
| When the low wind its playmate's voice it hears | F |
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| And in the warm hedge grew lush eglantine | G |
| Green cowbind and the moonlight coloured may | A |
| And cherry blossoms and white cups whose wine | G |
| Was the bright dew yet drained not by the day | A |
| And wild roses and ivy serpentine | G |
| With its dark buds and leaves wandering astray | A |
| And flowers azure black and streaked with gold | H |
| Fairer than any wakened eyes behold | H |
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| And nearer to the river's trembling edge | I |
| There grew broad flag flowers purple pranked with white | J |
| And starry river buds among the sedge | I |
| And floating water lilies broad and bright | J |
| Which lit the oak that overhung the hedge | I |
| With moonlight beams of their own watery light | J |
| And bulrushes and reeds of such deep green | K |
| As soothed the dazzled eye with sober sheen | K |
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| Methought that of these visionary flowers | F |
| I made a nosegay bound in such a way | A |
| That the same hues which in their natural bowers | F |
| Were mingled or opposed the like array | A |
| Kept these imprisoned children of the Hours | F |
| Within my hand and then elate and gay | A |
| I hastened to the spot whence I had come | L |
| That I might there present it Oh to whom | M |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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