Confetti In The Wind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD ECEFGHGH IJIJCKFK| He wrote a letter in his mind | A |
| To answer one a maid had sent | B |
| He sought the fitting word to find | A |
| As on by hill and rill he went | B |
| By bluebell wood and hawthorn lane | C |
| The cadence sweet and silken phrase | D |
| He incubated in his brain | C |
| For days and days | D |
| - | |
| He wrote his letter on a page | E |
| Of paper with a satin grain | C |
| It did not ring so in a rage | E |
| He tore it up and tried again | F |
| Time after time he drafted it | G |
| He polished it all through the night | H |
| He tuned and pruned till bit by bit | G |
| He got it right | H |
| - | |
| He took his letter to the post | I |
| Yet long he held it in his hand | J |
| Strangely his mood had veered almost | I |
| Reversed he could not understand | J |
| The girl was vague the words were vain | C |
| April romance had come to grief | K |
| He tore his letter up again | F |
| Oh blest relief | K |
Robert Service
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