A Blind Singer. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB EFGFEF HIJICI KLMLNL OPQRLR STUTVT WBXBYB| In covert of a leafy porch | A |
| Where woodbine clings | B |
| And roses drop their crimson leaves | C |
| He sits and sings | B |
| With soft brown crest erect to hear | D |
| And drooping wings | B |
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| Shut in a narrow cage which bars | E |
| His eager flight | F |
| Shut in the darker prison house | G |
| Of blinded sight | F |
| Alike to him are sun and stars | E |
| The day the night | F |
| - | |
| But all the fervor of high noon | H |
| Hushed fragrant strong | I |
| And all the peace of moonlit nights | J |
| When nights are long | I |
| And all the bliss of summer eves | C |
| Breathe in his song | I |
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| The rustle of the fresh green woods | K |
| The hum of bee | L |
| The joy of flight the perfumed waft | M |
| Of blossoming tree | L |
| The half forgotten rapturous thrill | N |
| Of liberty | L |
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| All blend and mix while evermore | O |
| Now and again | P |
| A plaintive puzzled cadence comes | Q |
| A low refrain | R |
| Caught from some shadowy memory | L |
| Of patient pain | R |
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| In midnight black when all men sleep | S |
| My singer wakes | T |
| And pipes his lovely melodies | U |
| And trills and shakes | T |
| The dark sky bends to listen but | V |
| No answer makes | T |
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| O what is joy In vain we grasp | W |
| Her purple wings | B |
| Unwon unwooed she flits to dwell | X |
| With humble things | B |
| She shares my sightless singer's cage | Y |
| And so he sings | B |
Susan Coolidge (sarah Chauncey Woolsey)
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