Shelley's Skylark (the Neighbourhood Of Leghorn: March, 1887) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHI JBJB KLKL| Somewhere afield here something lies | A |
| In Earth's oblivious eyeless trust | B |
| That moved a poet to prophecies | C |
| A pinch of unseen unguarded dust | B |
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| The dust of the lark that Shelley heard | D |
| And made immortal through times to be | E |
| Though it only lived like another bird | D |
| And knew not its immortality | E |
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| Lived its meek life then one day fell | F |
| A little ball of feather and bone | G |
| And how it perished when piped farewell | F |
| And where it wastes are alike unknown | G |
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| Maybe it rests in the loam I view | H |
| Maybe it throbs in a myrtle's green | I |
| Maybe it sleeps in the coming hue | H |
| Of a grape on the slopes of yon inland scene | I |
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| Go find it faeries go and find | J |
| That tiny pinch of priceless dust | B |
| And bring a casket silver lined | J |
| And framed of gold that gems encrust | B |
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| And we will lay it safe therein | K |
| And consecrate it to endless time | L |
| For it inspired a bard to win | K |
| Ecstatic heights in thought and rhyme | L |
Thomas Hardy
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