The Voice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DADAEE FAFAGG HIDIJJ| One feather is a bird | A |
| I claim one tree a wood | B |
| In her low voice I heard | A |
| More than a mortal should | B |
| And so I stood apart | C |
| Hidden in my own heart | C |
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| And yet I roamed out where | D |
| Those notes went like the bird | A |
| Whose thin song hung in air | D |
| Diminished yet still heard | A |
| I lived with open sound | E |
| Aloft and on the ground | E |
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| That ghost was my own choice | F |
| The shy cerulean bird | A |
| It sang with her true voice | F |
| And it was I who heard | A |
| A slight voice reply | G |
| I heard and only I | G |
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| Desire exults the ear | H |
| Bird girl and ghostly tree | I |
| The earth the solid air | D |
| Their slow song sang in me | I |
| The long noon pulsed away | J |
| Like any summer day | J |
Theodore Roethke
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