The Bullfinches Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCC DDEFF GGHII FFAFF FFAFF AABCC| Bother Bulleys let us sing | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp From the dawn till evening | A |
| For we know not that we go not | B |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp When the day's pale pinions fold | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Unto those who sang of old | C |
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| nbsp nbsp nbsp When I flew to Blackmoor Vale | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Whence the green gowned faeries hail | D |
| Roosting near them I could hear them | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Speak of queenly Nature's ways | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Means and moods well known to fays | F |
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| nbsp nbsp nbsp All we creatures nigh and far | G |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Said they there the Mother's are | G |
| Yet she never shows endeavour | H |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp To protect from warrings wild | I |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Bird or beast she calls her child | I |
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| nbsp nbsp nbsp Busy in her handsome house | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Known as Space she falls a drowse | F |
| Yet in seeming works on dreaming | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp While beneath her groping hands | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Fiends make havoc in her bands | F |
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| nbsp nbsp nbsp How her hussif'ry succeeds | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp She unknows or she unheeds | F |
| All things making for Death's taking | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp So the green gowned faeries say | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Living over Blackmoor way | F |
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| nbsp nbsp nbsp Come then brethren let us sing | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp From the dawn till evening | A |
| For we know not that we go not | B |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp When the day's pale pinions fold | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Unto those who sang of old | C |
Thomas Hardy
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