Kaspar's Song In 'varda' Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHG IJIEyes aloft over dangerous places | A |
The children follow where Psyche flies | B |
And in the sweat of their upturned faces | A |
Slash with a net at the empty skies | B |
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So it goes they fall amid brambles | C |
And sting their toes on the nettle tops | D |
Till after a thousand scratches and scrambles | C |
They wipe their brows and the hunting stops | D |
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Then to quiet them comes their father | E |
And stills the riot of pain and grief | F |
Saying 'Little ones go and gather | E |
Out of my garden a cabbage leaf | F |
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'You will find on it whorls and clots of | G |
Dull grey eggs that properly fed | H |
Turn by way of the worm to lots of | G |
Radiant Psyches raised from the dead ' | - |
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'Heaven is beautiful Earth is ugly ' | - |
The three dimensioned preacher saith | I |
So we must not look where the snail and the slug lie | J |
For Psyches birth And that is our death | I |
Rudyard Kipling
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