Could I But Will (song) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDCCD CECEFCCF AGAGGHHG| Verses Key Major Verse Key Minor | A |
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| Could I but will | B |
| Will to my bent | C |
| I'd have afar ones near me still | B |
| And music of rare ravishment | C |
| In strains that move the toes and heels | D |
| And when the sweethearts sat for rest | C |
| The unbetrothed should foot with zest | C |
| Ecstatic reels | D |
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| Could I be head | C |
| Head god Come now | E |
| Dear girl I'd say whose flame is fled | C |
| Who liest with linen banded brow | E |
| Stirred but by shakes from Earth's deep core | F |
| I'd say to her Unshroud and meet | C |
| That Love who kissed and called thee Sweet | C |
| Yea come once more | F |
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| Even half god power | A |
| In spinning dooms | G |
| Had I this frozen scene should flower | A |
| And sand swept plains and Arctic glooms | G |
| Should green them gay with waving leaves | G |
| Mid which old friends and I would walk | H |
| With weightless feet and magic talk | H |
| Uncounted eves | G |
Thomas Hardy
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