The Mystic Friends Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAAA CDDCEE FFD GAAGAGAAFFHI BCJBCJ KKFFLLMM ANOAAPPI nothing did all yesterday | A |
But listen to the singing rain | B |
On roof and weeping window pane | B |
And 'whiles I'd watch the flying spray | A |
And smoking breakers in the bay | A |
Nothing but this did I all day | A |
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Save turn anon to trim the fire | C |
With a new log and mark it roar | D |
And flame with yellow tongues for more | D |
To feed its mystical desire | C |
No other comrades save these three | E |
The fire the rain and the wild sea | E |
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All day from morn till night had I | F |
Yea and the wind with fitful cry | F |
Like a hound whining at the door | D |
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Yet seemed it as to sleep I turned | G |
Pausing a little while to pray | A |
That not mis spent had been the day | A |
That I had somehow wisdom learned | G |
From those wild waters in the bay | A |
And from the fire as it burned | G |
And that the rain in some strange way | A |
Had words of high import to say | A |
And that the wind with fitful cry | F |
Did some immortal message try | F |
Striving to make some meaning clear | H |
Important for my soul to hear | I |
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But what the meaning of the rain | B |
And what the wisdom of the fire | C |
And what the warning of the wind | J |
And what the sea would tell in vain | B |
My soul doth of itself enquire | C |
And yet a meaning too doth find | J |
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For what am I that hears and sees | K |
But a strange brother of all these | K |
That blindly move and wordless cry | F |
And I mysteriously I | F |
Answer in blood and bone and breath | L |
To what my gnomic kindred saith | L |
And as in me they all have part | M |
Translate their message to my heart | M |
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And know yet know not what they say | A |
Know not yet know the fire's tongue | N |
And the rain's elegiac song | O |
And the white language of the spray | A |
And all the wind meant yesterday | A |
Yea wiser he when the day ends | P |
Who shared it with those four strange friends | P |
Richard Le Gallienne
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