Morning Meditations Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF DDDD GHGH IJIJ DKDK LMLM ANAN BOBO| Let Taylor preach upon a morning breezy | A |
| How well to rise while nights and larks are flying | B |
| For my part getting up seems not so easy | A |
| By half as lying | B |
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| What if the lark does carol in the sky | C |
| Soaring beyond the sight to find him out | D |
| Wherefore am I to rise at such a fly | C |
| I'm not a trout | D |
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| Talk not to me of bees and such like hums | E |
| The smell of sweet herbs at the morning prime | F |
| Only lee long enough and bed becomes | E |
| A bed of time | F |
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| To me Dan Phoebus and his car are nought | D |
| His steeds that paw impatiently about | D |
| Let them enjoy say I as horses ought | D |
| The first turn out | D |
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| Right beautiful the dewy meads appear | G |
| Besprinkled by the rosy finger'd girl | H |
| What then if I prefer my pillow beer | G |
| To early pearl | H |
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| My stomach is not ruled by other men's | I |
| And grumbling for a reason quaintly begs | J |
| Wherefore should master rise before the hens | I |
| Have laid their eggs | J |
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| Why from a comfortable pillow start | D |
| To see faint flushes in the east awaken | K |
| A fig say I for any streaky part | D |
| Excepting bacon | K |
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| An early riser Mr Gray has drawn | L |
| Who used to haste the dewy grass among | M |
| To meet the sun upon the upland lawn | L |
| Well he died young | M |
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| With charwomen such early hours agree | A |
| And sweeps that earn betimes their bit and sup | N |
| But I'm no climbing boy and need not be | A |
| All up all up | N |
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| So here I'll lie my morning calls deferring | B |
| Till something nearer to the stroke of noon | O |
| A man that's fond precociously of stirring | B |
| Must be a spoon | O |
Thomas Hood
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