To A Skylark Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDD EDEDD FGFGG HDGDD IJIJK KDKDD DLDLL GDGDD GEGEE GDGDD DMDNM OPOQP DGDGG RDRDD SGSGG SLSLD TUTUU EDEDD GJGKJ SDSDD SGSGGHail to thee blithe Spirit | A |
Bird thou never wert | B |
That from heaven or near it | C |
Pourest thy full heart | D |
In profuse strains of unpremeditated art | D |
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Higher still and higher | E |
From the earth thou springest | D |
Like a cloud of fire | E |
The blue deep thou wingest | D |
And singing still dost soar and soaring ever singest | D |
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In the golden lightning | F |
Of the sunken sun | G |
O'er which clouds are bright'ning | F |
Thou dost float and run | G |
Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun | G |
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The pale purple even | H |
Melts around thy flight | D |
Like a star of heaven | G |
In the broad daylight | D |
Thou art unseen but yet I hear thy shrill delight | D |
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Keen as are the arrows | I |
Of that silver sphere | J |
Whose intense lamp narrows | I |
In the white dawn clear | J |
Until we hardly see we feel that it is there | K |
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All the earth and air | K |
With thy voice is loud | D |
As when night is bare | K |
From one lonely cloud | D |
The moon rains out her beams and heaven is overflowed | D |
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What thou art we know not | D |
What is most like thee | L |
From rainbow clouds there flow not | D |
Drops so bright to see | L |
As from thy presence showers a rain of melody | L |
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Like a poet hidden | G |
In the light of thought | D |
Singing hymns unbidden | G |
Till the world is wrought | D |
To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not | D |
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Like a high born maiden | G |
In a palace tower | E |
Soothing her love laden | G |
Soul in secret hour | E |
With music sweet as love which overflows her bower | E |
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Like a glow worm golden | G |
In a dell of dew | D |
Scattering unbeholden | G |
Its aerial hue | D |
Among the flowers and grass which screen it from the view | D |
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Like a rose embowered | D |
In its own green leaves | M |
By warm winds deflowered | D |
Till the scent it gives | N |
Makes faint with too much sweet these heavy winged thieves | M |
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Sound of vernal showers | O |
On the twinkling grass | P |
Rain awakened flowers | O |
All that ever was | Q |
Joyous and clear and fresh thy music doth surpass | P |
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Teach us sprite or bird | D |
What sweet thoughts are thine | G |
I have never heard | D |
Praise of love or wine | G |
That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine | G |
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Chorus hymeneal | R |
Or triumphal chaunt | D |
Matched with thine would be all | R |
But an empty vaunt | D |
A thing wherein we feel there is some hidden want | D |
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What objects are the fountains | S |
Of thy happy strain | G |
What fields or waves or mountains | S |
What shapes of sky or plain | G |
What love of thine own kind what ignorance of pain | G |
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With thy clear keen joyance | S |
Languor cannot be | L |
Shadow of annoyance | S |
Never came near thee | L |
Thou lovest but ne'er knew love's sad satiety | D |
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Waking or asleep | T |
Thou of death must deem | U |
Things more true and deep | T |
Than we mortals dream | U |
Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream | U |
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We look before and after | E |
And pine for what is not | D |
Our sincerest laughter | E |
With some pain is fraught | D |
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought | D |
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Yet if we could scorn | G |
Hate and pride and fear | J |
If we were things born | G |
Not to shed a tear | K |
I know not how thy joy we ever should come near | J |
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Better than all measures | S |
Of delightful sound | D |
Better than all treasures | S |
That in books are found | D |
Thy skill to poet were thou scorner of the ground | D |
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Teach me half the gladness | S |
That thy brain must know | G |
Such harmonious madness | S |
From my lips would flow | G |
The world should listen then as I am listening now | G |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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