Prelude Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFG HHIIJJ KKLLMM| Poems are heavenly things | A |
| And only souls with wings | A |
| May reach them where they grow | B |
| May pluck and bear below | B |
| Feeding the nations thus | C |
| With food all glorious | C |
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| Verses are not of these | D |
| They bloom on earthly trees | D |
| Poised on a low hung stem | E |
| And those may gather them | E |
| Who cannot fly to where | F |
| The heavenly gardens are | G |
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| So I by devious ways | H |
| Have pulled some easy sprays | H |
| From the down dropping bough | I |
| Which all may reach and now | I |
| I knot them bud and leaf | J |
| Into a rhymed sheaf | J |
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| Not mine the pinion strong | K |
| To win the nobler song | K |
| I only cull and bring | L |
| A hedge row offering | L |
| Of berry flower and brake | M |
| If haply some may take | M |
Susan Coolidge (sarah Chauncey Woolsey)
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