Flute-music, With An Accompaniment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEDED DBFBGHIJDADA CICIKIKILILI KDKDABABKIKI ABABKIKIIBIB KBKBKIKIKHKH KIKIKBKBEIEI BDBDKDKDEIBI KKKKBM BNKKKK KDKOBKBKIPIP DKDKBIBIKIKI IKIKKBKBKIKI EDEDBKBKDIDI KIKIIKIKIMIM KKKKKQKQBRBR IKIIKKIKIBIBRHe Ah the bird like fluting | A |
Through the ash tops yonder | B |
Bullfinch bubblings soft sounds suiting | A |
What sweet thoughts I wonder | B |
Fine pearled notes that surely | C |
Gather dewdrop fashion | D |
Deep down in some heart which purely | C |
Secretes globuled passion | D |
Passion insuppressive | E |
Such is piped for certain | D |
Love no doubt nay love excessive | E |
'Tis your ash tops curtain | D |
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Would your ash tops open | D |
We might spy the player | B |
Seek and find some sense which no pen | F |
Yet from singer sayer | B |
Ever has extracted | G |
Never to my knowledge | H |
Yet has pedantry enacted | I |
That in Cupid's College | J |
Just this variation | D |
Of the old old yearning | A |
Should by plain speech have salvation | D |
Yield new men new learning | A |
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Love but what love nicely | C |
New from old disparted | I |
Would the player teach precisely | C |
First of all be started | I |
In my brain Assurance | K |
Trust entire Contentment | I |
Passion proved by much endurance | K |
Then came not resentment | I |
No but simply Sorrow | L |
What was seen had vanished | I |
Yesterday so blue To morrow | L |
Blank all sunshine banished | I |
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Hark 'Tis Hope resurges | K |
Struggling through obstruction | D |
Forces a poor smile which verges | K |
On joy's introduction | D |
Now perhaps mere Musing | A |
Holds earth such a wonder | B |
Fairy mortal soul sense fusing | A |
Past thought's power to sunder | B |
What calm Acquiescence | K |
Daisied turf gives room to | I |
Trefoil plucked once in her presence | K |
Growing by her tomb too | I |
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She All's your fancy spinning | A |
Here's the fact a neighbor | B |
Never ending still beginning | A |
Recreates his labor | B |
Deep o'er desk he drudges | K |
Adds divides subtracts and | I |
Multiplies until he judges | K |
Noonday hour's exact sand | I |
Shows the hour glass emptied | I |
Then comes lawful leisure | B |
Minutes rare from toil exempted | I |
Fit to spend in pleasure | B |
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Out then with what treatise | K |
Youth's Complete Instructor | B |
How to play the Flute Quid petis | K |
Follow Youth's conductor | B |
On and on through Easy | K |
Up to Harder Hardest | I |
Flute piece till thou flautist wheezy | K |
Possibly discardest | I |
Tootlings hoarse and husky | K |
Mayst expend with courage | H |
Breath on tunes once bright now dusky | K |
Meant to cool thy porridge | H |
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That's an air of Tulou's | K |
He maltreats persistent | I |
Till as lief I'd hear some Zulu's | K |
Bone piped bag breath distent | I |
Madden native dances | K |
I'm the man's familiar | B |
Unexpectedness enhances | K |
What your ear's auxiliar | B |
Fancy finds suggestive | E |
Listen That's legato | I |
Rightly played his fingers restive | E |
Touch as if staccato | I |
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He Ah you trick betrayer | B |
Telling tales unwise one | D |
So the secret of the player | B |
Was he could surprise one | D |
Well nigh into trusting | K |
Here was a musician | D |
Skilled consummately yet lusting | K |
Through no vile ambition | D |
After making captive | E |
All the world rewarded | I |
Amply by one stranger's rapture | B |
Common praise discarded | I |
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So without assistance | K |
Such as music rightly | K |
Needs and claims defying distance | K |
Overleaping lightly | K |
Obstacles which hinder | B |
He for my approval | M |
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All the same and all the kinder | B |
Made mine what might move all | N |
Earth to kneel adoring | K |
Took while he piped Gounod's | K |
Bit of passionate imploring | K |
Me for Juliet who knows | K |
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No as you explain things | K |
All's mere repetition | D |
Practise pother of all vain things | K |
Why waste pooh or pish on | O |
Toilsome effort never | B |
Ending still beginning | K |
After what should pay endeavor | B |
Right performance winning | K |
Weariness from you who | I |
Ready to admire some | P |
Owl's fresh hooting Tu whit to who | I |
Find stale thrush songs tiresome | P |
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She Songs Spring thought perfection | D |
Summer criticises | K |
What in May escaped detection | D |
August past surprises | K |
Notes and names each blunder | B |
You the just initiate | I |
Praise to heart's content what wonder | B |
Tootings I hear vitiate | I |
Romeo's serenading | K |
I who times full twenty | I |
Turned to ice no ash tops aiding | K |
At his caldamente | I |
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So 'twas distance altered | I |
Sharps to flats The missing | K |
Bar when syncopation faltered | I |
You thought paused for kissing | K |
Ash tops too felonious | K |
Intercepted Rather | B |
Say they well nigh made euphonious | K |
Discord helped to gather | B |
Phrase by phrase turn patches | K |
Into simulated | I |
Unity which botching matches | K |
Scraps redintegrated | I |
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He Sweet are you suggestive | E |
Of an old suspicion | D |
Which has always found me restive | E |
To its admonition | D |
When it ventured whisper | B |
Fool the strifes and struggles | K |
Of your trembler blusher lisper | B |
Were so many juggles | K |
Tricks tried oh so often | D |
Which once more do duty | I |
Find again a heart to soften | D |
Soul to snare with beauty | I |
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Birth blush of the briar rose | K |
Mist bloom of the hedge sloe | I |
Some one gainst the prize admire rose | K |
Would he when noon's wedge slow | I |
Sure has pushed expanded | I |
Rathe pink to raw redness | K |
Would he covet sloe when sanded | I |
By road dust to deadness | K |
So restore their value | I |
Ply a water sprinkle | M |
Then guess sloe is fingered shall you | I |
Find in rose a wrinkle | M |
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Here what played Aquarius | K |
Distance ash tops aiding | K |
Reconciled scraps else contrarious | K |
Brightened stuff fast fading | K |
Distance call your shyness | K |
Was the fair one peevish | Q |
Coyness softened out of slyness | K |
Was she cunning thievish | Q |
All but proved impostor | B |
Bear but one day's exile | R |
Ugly traits were wholly lost or | B |
Screened by fancies flexile | R |
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Ash tops these you take me | I |
Fancies' interference | K |
Changed | I |
But since I sleep don't wake me | I |
What if all's appearance | K |
Is not outside seeming | K |
Real as substance inside | I |
Both are facts so leave me dreaming | K |
If who loses wins I'd | I |
Ever lose conjecture | B |
From one phrase trilled deftly | I |
All the piece So end your lecture | B |
Let who lied be left lie | R |
Robert Browning
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