Over The Roofs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBBD CEFFE A ADAA AGAG A HCEC IJKJ A LMNM OKPK QDLD| I | A |
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| Oh chimes set high on the sunny tower | B |
| Ring on ring on unendingly | C |
| Make all the hours a single hour | B |
| For when the dusk begins to flower | B |
| The man I love will come to me | D |
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| But no go slowly as you will | C |
| I should not bid you hasten so | E |
| For while I wait for love to come | F |
| Some other girl is standing dumb | F |
| Fearing her love will go | E |
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| II | A |
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| Oh white steam over the roofs blow high | A |
| Oh chimes in the tower ring clear and free | D |
| Oh sun awake in the covered sky | A |
| For the man I love loves me I | A |
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| Oh drifting steam disperse and die | A |
| Oh tower stand shrouded toward the south | G |
| Fate heard afar my happy cry | A |
| And laid her finger on my mouth | G |
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| III | A |
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| The dusk was blue with blowing mist | H |
| The lights were spangles in a veil | C |
| And from the clamor far below | E |
| Floated faint music like a wail | C |
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| It voiced what I shall never speak | I |
| My heart was breaking all night long | J |
| But when the dawn was hard and gray | K |
| My tears distilled into a song | J |
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| IV | A |
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| I said I have shut my heart | L |
| As one shuts an open door | M |
| That Love may starve therein | N |
| And trouble me no more | M |
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| But over the roofs there came | O |
| The wet new wind of May | K |
| And a tune blew up from the curb | P |
| Where the street pianos play | K |
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| My room was white with the sun | Q |
| And Love cried out in me | D |
| I am strong I will break your heart | L |
| Unless you set me free | D |
Sara Teasdale
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