Voice, The Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD C ECEFGGFG GGECE GA ACAA GGA HHHHH HSafe in the magic of my woods | A |
I lay and watched the dying light | B |
Faint in the pale high solitudes | A |
And washed with rain and veiled by night | B |
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Silver and blue and green were showing | C |
And the dark woods grew darker still | D |
And birds were hushed and peace was growing | C |
And quietness crept up the hill | D |
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And no wind was blowing | C |
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And I knew | E |
That this was the hour of knowing | C |
And the night and the woods and you | E |
Were one together and I should find | F |
Soon in the silence the hidden key | G |
Of all that had hurt and puzzled me | G |
Why you were you and the night was kind | F |
And the woods were part of the heart of me | G |
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And there I waited breathlessly | G |
Alone and slowly the holy three | G |
The three that I loved together grew | E |
One in the hour of knowing | C |
Night and the woods and you | E |
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And suddenly | G |
There was an uproar in my woods | A |
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The noise of a fool in mock distress | A |
Crashing and laughing and blindly going | C |
Of ignorant feet and a swishing dress | A |
And a Voice profaning the solitudes | A |
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The spell was broken the key denied me | G |
And at length your flat clear voice beside me | G |
Mouthed cheerful clear flat platitudes | A |
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You came and quacked beside me in the wood | H |
You said quot The view from here is very good quot | H |
You said quot It's nice to be alone a bit quot | H |
And quot How the days are drawing out quot you said | H |
You said quot The sunset's pretty isn't it quot | H |
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By God I wish I wish that you were dead | H |
Rupert Brooke
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