A Singer Asleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCB DAADEE CCFFF GHIII JIIJJ KKLMML NOONNO PAAAPA L LLLLLLLL QAlgernon Charles Swinburne | A |
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I | - |
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In this fair niche above the unslumbering sea | B |
That sentrys up and down all night all day | C |
From cove to promontory from ness to bay | C |
The Fates have fitly bidden that he should be Pillowed eternally | B |
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II | - |
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It was as though a garland of red roses | D |
Had fallen about the hood of some smug nun | A |
When irresponsibly dropped as from the sun | A |
In fulth of numbers freaked with musical closes | D |
Upon Victoria's formal middle time | E |
His leaves of rhythm and rhyme | E |
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III | - |
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O that far morning of a summer day | C |
When down a terraced street whose pavements lay | C |
Glassing the sunshine into my bent eyes | F |
I walked and read with a quick glad surprise | F |
New words in classic guise | F |
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IV | - |
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The passionate pages of his earlier years | G |
Fraught with hot sighs sad laughters kisses tears | H |
Fresh fluted notes yet from a minstrel who | I |
Blew them not naively but as one who knew | I |
Full well why thus he blew | I |
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V | - |
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I still can hear the brabble and the roar | J |
At those thy tunes O still one now passed through | I |
That fitful fire of tongues then entered new | I |
Their power is spent like spindrift on this shore | J |
Thine swells yet more and more | J |
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VI | - |
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His singing mistress verily was no other | K |
Than she the Lesbian she the music mother | K |
Of all the tribe that feel in melodies | L |
Who leapt love anguished from the Leucadian steep | M |
Into the rambling world encircling deep | M |
Which hides her where none sees | L |
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And one can hold in thought that nightly here | N |
His phantom may draw down to the water's brim | O |
And hers come up to meet it as a dim | O |
Lone shine upon the heaving hydrosphere | N |
And mariners wonder as they traverse near | N |
Unknowing of her and him | O |
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VIII | - |
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One dreams him sighing to her spectral form | P |
O teacher where lies hid thy burning line | A |
Where are those songs O poetess divine | A |
Whose very arts are love incarnadine | A |
And her smile back Disciple true and warm | P |
Sufficient now are thine | A |
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IX | L |
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So here beneath the waking constellations | L |
Where the waves peal their everlasting strains | L |
And their dull subterrene reverberations | L |
Shake him when storms make mountains of their plains | L |
Him once their peer in sad improvisations | L |
And deft as wind to cleave their frothy manes | L |
I leave him while the daylight gleam declines | L |
Upon the capes and chines | L |
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BONCHURCH | Q |
Thomas Hardy
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