Snowdrops Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCADEEDC FFFFGHHIIFF IIJKKFLMNOOIEFAFHave you heard the Snowdrops ringing | A |
Their bells to themselves | B |
Smaller and whiter than the singing | A |
Of any fairy elves | B |
Who follow Mab their Queen | C |
When she is winging | A |
On a moth across the night | D |
And calls them all | E |
With a far twinkling call | E |
Like the tiniest ray of tiniest starlight | D |
That ever was seen | C |
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Far and near high and low | F |
Don't you hear the little bells go | F |
Not in the big winds that blow | F |
The roaring beeches to and fro | F |
Not in the lower rivers | G |
Of the breeze | H |
Below the trees | H |
When the stiff bracken shines | I |
And the thin bent quivers | I |
And the limp green waves to and fro | F |
You shall hear the little bells go | F |
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But in the jets and rivulets | I |
That sputter from the melting snows | I |
When against the mighty bole | J |
Of a beech they dash and swirl | K |
And twist and twirl | K |
The licking leaves throw | F |
A thousand airy drops invisible | L |
Down the strong perpendicular | M |
To where the snowdrops are | N |
Tiny drops that fall and meet | O |
And swift and sweet | O |
Run dim viewless course of fitful force | I |
Like an airy waterfall | E |
You shall hear the little bells go | F |
All the tiny snowbells swinging | A |
Tiny chauntlets high and low | F |
Sydney Thompson Dobell
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