Limitations Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFGFG HIJI KLKL MNNOO PPEPPP PCPQRMRMPM| If you could crowd them into forty lines | A |
| Yes you can do it once you get a start | B |
| All that you want is waiting in your head | C |
| For long ago you've learnt it off by heart | B |
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| Begin your mind's the room where you have slept | D |
| Don't pause for rhymes till twilight woke you early | E |
| The window stands wide open as it stood | F |
| When tree tops loomed enchanted for a child | G |
| Hearing the dawn's first thrushes through the wood | F |
| Warbling you know the words serene and wild | G |
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| You've said it all before you dreamed of Death | H |
| A dim Apollo in the bird voiced breeze | I |
| That drifts across the morning veiled with showers | J |
| While golden weather shines among dark trees | I |
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| You've got your limitations let them sing | K |
| And all your life will waken with a cry | L |
| Why should you halt when rapture's on the wing | K |
| And you've no limit but the cloud flocked sky | L |
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| But some chap shouts 'Here stop it that's been done ' | - |
| As God might holloa to the rising sun | M |
| And then relent because the glorying rays | N |
| Remind Him of green glinting Eden days | N |
| And Adam's trustful eyes as he looks up | O |
| From carving eagles on his beechwood cup | O |
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| Young Adam knew his job he could condense | P |
| Life to an eagle from the unknown immense | P |
| Go on whoever you are your lines can be | E |
| A whisper in the music from the weirs | P |
| Of song that plunge and tumble toward the sea | P |
| That is the uncharted mercy of our tears | P |
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| I told you it was easy Words are fools | P |
| Who follow blindly once they get a lead | C |
| But thoughts are kingfishers that haunt the pools | P |
| Of quiet seldom seen and all you need | Q |
| Is just that flash of joy above your dream | R |
| So when those forty platitudes are done | M |
| You'll hear a bird note calling from the stream | R |
| That wandered through your childhood and the sun | M |
| Will strike the old flaming wonder from the waters | P |
| And there'll be forty lines not yet begun | M |
Siegfried Sassoon
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