Clouds And Waves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJCKLAMNDOPQ MLREOJS| Mother the folk who live up in the clouds call out to me | A |
| We play from the time we wake till the day ends | B |
| We play with the golden dawn we play with the silver moon | C |
| I ask But how am I to get up to you | D |
| They answer Come to the edge of the earth lift up your | E |
| hands to the sky and you will be taken up into the clouds | F |
| My mother is waiting for me at home I say How can I leave | G |
| her and come | H |
| Then they smile and float away | I |
| But I know a nicer game than that mother | J |
| I shall be the cloud and you the moon | C |
| I shall cover you with both my hands and our house top will | K |
| be the blue sky | L |
| The folk who live in the waves call out to me | A |
| We sing from morning till night on and on we travel and know | M |
| not where we pass | N |
| I ask But how am I to join you | D |
| They tell me Come to the edge of the shore and stand with | O |
| your eyes tight shut and you will be carried out upon the waves | P |
| I say My mother always wants me at home in the everything | Q |
| how can I leave her and go | M |
| They smile dance and pass by | L |
| But I know a better game than that | R |
| I will be the waves and you will be a strange shore | E |
| I shall roll on and on and on and break upon your lap with | O |
| laughter | J |
| And no one in the world will know where we both are | S |
Rabindranath Tagore
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