Shelley's Skylark (the Neighbourhood Of Leghorn: March, 1887) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHI JBJB KLKLSomewhere 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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