A Lyric Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFGFHIJI KLMLNONOI deem that there are lyric days | A |
So ripe with radiance and cheer | B |
So rich with gratitude and praise | A |
That they enrapture all the year | B |
And if there is a God above | C |
As they would tell me in the Kirk | D |
How he must look with pride and love | C |
Upon his perfect handiwork | D |
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To day has been a lyric day | E |
I hope I shall remember long | F |
Of meadow dance and roundelay | G |
Of woodland glee of glow and song | F |
Such joy I saw in maidens eyes | H |
In mother gaze such tender bliss | I |
How earth would rival paradise | J |
If every day could be like this | I |
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Why die say I Let us live on | K |
In lyric world of song and shine | L |
With ecstasy from dawn to dawn | M |
Until we greet the dawn Devine | L |
For I believe with star and sun | N |
With peak and plain with sea and sod | O |
Inextricably we are one | N |
Bound in the Wholeness God | O |
Robert Service
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