To Some Birds Flown Away Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B AACCDDEFEFGDDGAAHIJI KKLLLMM NNDDOODADAPPDDQRRQNS NSAADDTUTULLDDAVAVDD WWDDKDXDYYZZDTDT AAA2A2TTB2C2OOUUDDAD 2AD2ONOE2F2F2D DHJG2G2TTH2H2DDI2I2L LA2A2J2J2 DDDAADK2DK2L2K2HJM2M 2JH2N2DD O2O2RDRDOODF2F2K2K2T TSSO2O2I2I2M2M2 WWP2P2Q2Q2HJJAAR2R2T S2TS2T2ST2DVVP2P2P2P 2P2 U2U2DDDV2W2DDDDP2P2X DXDP2P2AAA P2P2P2P2X2X2DDV2W2DD Y2VHJDDDDZ2P2AAAA P2| Enfants Oh revenez | A |
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| XXII April | B |
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| Children come back come back I say | A |
| You whom my folly chased away | A |
| A moment since from this my room | C |
| With bristling wrath and words of doom | C |
| What had you done you bandits small | D |
| With lips as red as roses all | D |
| What crime what wild and hapless deed | E |
| What porcelain vase by you was split | F |
| To thousand pieces Did you need | E |
| For pastime as you handled it | F |
| Some Gothic missal to enrich | G |
| With your designs fantastical | D |
| Or did your tearing fingers fall | D |
| On some old picture Which oh which | G |
| Your dreadful fault Not one of these | A |
| Only when left yourselves to please | A |
| This morning but a moment here | H |
| 'Mid papers tinted by my mind | I |
| You took some embryo verses near | J |
| Half formed but fully well designed | I |
| To open out Your hearts desire | K |
| Was but to throw them on the fire | K |
| Then watch the tinder for the sight | L |
| Of shining sparks that twinkle bright | L |
| As little boats that sail at night | L |
| Or like the window lights that spring | M |
| From out the dark at evening | M |
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| 'Twas all and you were well content | N |
| Fine loss was this for anger's vent | N |
| A strophe ill made midst your play | D |
| Sweet sound that chased the words away | D |
| In stormy flight An ode quite new | O |
| With rhymes inflated stanzas too | O |
| That panted moving lazily | D |
| And heavy Alexandrine lines | A |
| That seemed to jostle bodily | D |
| Like children full of play designs | A |
| That spring at once from schoolroom's form | P |
| Instead of all this angry storm | P |
| Another might have thanked you well | D |
| For saving prey from that grim cell | D |
| That hollowed den 'neath journals great | Q |
| Where editors who poets flout | R |
| With their demoniac laughter shout | R |
| And I have scolded you What fate | Q |
| For charming dwarfs who never meant | N |
| To anger Hercules And I | S |
| Have frightened you My chair I sent | N |
| Back to the wall and then let fly | S |
| A shower of words the envious use | A |
| Get out I said with hard abuse | A |
| Leave me alone alone I say | D |
| Poor man alone Ah well a day | D |
| What fine result what triumph rare | T |
| As one turns from the coffin'd dead | U |
| So left you me I could but stare | T |
| Upon the door through which you fled | U |
| I proud and grave but punished quite | L |
| And what care you for this my plight | L |
| You have recovered liberty | D |
| Fresh air and lovely scenery | D |
| The spacious park and wished for grass | A |
| The running stream where you can throw | V |
| A blade to watch what comes to pass | A |
| Blue sky and all the spring can show | V |
| Nature serenely fair to see | D |
| The book of birds and spirits free | D |
| God's poem worth much more than mine | W |
| Where flowers for perfect stanzas shine | W |
| Flowers that a child may pluck in play | D |
| No harsh voice frightening it away | D |
| And I'm alone all pleasure o'er | K |
| Alone with pedant called Ennui | D |
| For since the morning at my door | X |
| Ennui has waited patiently | D |
| That docto r London born you mark | Y |
| One Sunday in December dark | Y |
| Poor little ones he loved you not | Z |
| And waited till the chance he got | Z |
| To enter as you passed away | D |
| And in the very corner where | T |
| You played with frolic laughter gay | D |
| He sighs and yawns with weary air | T |
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| What can I do Shall I read books | A |
| Or write more verse or turn fond looks | A |
| Upon enamels blue sea green | A2 |
| And white on insects rare as seen | A2 |
| Upon my Dresden china ware | T |
| Or shall I touch the globe and care | T |
| To make the heavens turn upon | B2 |
| Its axis No not one not one | C2 |
| Of all these things care I to do | O |
| All wearies me I think of you | O |
| In truth with you my sunshine fled | U |
| And gayety with your light tread | U |
| Glad noise that set me dreaming still | D |
| 'Twas my delight to watch your will | D |
| And mark you point with finger tips | A |
| To help your spelling out a word | D2 |
| To see the pearls between your lips | A |
| When I your joyous laughter heard | D2 |
| Your honest brows that looked so true | O |
| And said Oh yes to each intent | N |
| Your great bright eyes that loved to view | O |
| With admiration innocent | E2 |
| My fine old S vres the eager thought | F2 |
| That every kind of knowledge sought | F2 |
| The elbow push with Come and see | D |
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| Oh certes spirits sylphs there be | D |
| And fays the wind blows often here | H |
| The gnomes that squat the ceiling near | J |
| In corners made by old books dim | G2 |
| The long backed dwarfs those goblins grim | G2 |
| That seem at home 'mong vases rare | T |
| And chat to them with friendly air | T |
| Oh how the joyous demon throng | H2 |
| Must all have laughed with laughter long | H2 |
| To see you on my rough drafts fall | D |
| My bald hexameters and all | D |
| The mournful miserable band | I2 |
| And drag them with relentless hand | I2 |
| From out their box with true delight | L |
| To set them each and all a light | L |
| And then with clapping hands to lean | A2 |
| Above the stove and watch the scene | A2 |
| How to the mass deformed there came | J2 |
| A soul that showed itself in flame | J2 |
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| Bright tricksy children oh I pray | D |
| Come back and sing and dance away | D |
| And chatter too sometimes you may | D |
| A giddy group a big book seize | A |
| Or sometimes if it so you please | A |
| With nimble step you'll run to me | D |
| And push the arm that holds the pen | K2 |
| Till on my finished verse will be | D |
| A stroke that's like a steeple when | K2 |
| Seen suddenly upon a plain | L2 |
| My soul longs for your breath again | K2 |
| To warm it Oh return come here | H |
| With laugh and babble and no fear | J |
| When with your shadow you obscure | M2 |
| The book I read for I am sure | M2 |
| Oh madcaps terrible and dear | J |
| That you were right and I was wrong | H2 |
| But who has ne'er with scolding tongue | N2 |
| Blamed out of season Pardon me | D |
| You must forgive for sad are we | D |
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| The young should not be hard and cold | O2 |
| And unforgiving to the old | O2 |
| Children each morn your souls ope out | R |
| Like windows to the shining day | D |
| Oh miracle that comes about | R |
| The miracle that children gay | D |
| Have happiness and goodness too | O |
| Caressed by destiny are you | O |
| Charming you are if you but play | D |
| But we with living overwrought | F2 |
| And full of grave and sombre thought | F2 |
| Are snappish oft dear little men | K2 |
| We have ill tempered days and then | K2 |
| Are quite unjust and full of care | T |
| It rained this morning and the air | T |
| Was chill but clouds that dimm'd the sky | S |
| Have passed Things spited me and why | S |
| But now my heart repents Behold | O2 |
| What 'twas that made me cross and scold | O2 |
| All by and by you'll understand | I2 |
| When brows are mark'd by Time's stern hand | I2 |
| Then you will comprehend be sure | M2 |
| When older that's to say less pure | M2 |
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| The fault I freely own was mine | W |
| But oh for pardon now I pine | W |
| Enough my punishment to meet | P2 |
| You must forgive I do entreat | P2 |
| With clasped hands praying oh come back | Q2 |
| Make peace and you shall nothing lack | Q2 |
| See now my pencils paper here | H |
| And pointless compasses and dear | J |
| Old lacquer work and stoneware clear | J |
| Through glass protecting all man's toys | A |
| So coveted by girls and boys | A |
| Great China monsters bodies much | R2 |
| Like cucumbers you all shall touch | R2 |
| I yield up all my picture rare | T |
| Found beneath antique rubbish heap | S2 |
| My great and tapestried oak chair | T |
| I will from you no longer keep | S2 |
| You shall about my table climb | T2 |
| And dance or drag without a cry | S |
| From me as if it were a crime | T2 |
| Even I'll look on patiently | D |
| If you your jagged toys all throw | V |
| Upon my carved bench till it show | V |
| The wood is torn and freely too | P2 |
| I'll leave in your own hands to view | P2 |
| My pictured Bible oft desired | P2 |
| But which to touch your fear inspired | P2 |
| With God in emperor's robes attired | P2 |
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| Then if to see my verses burn | U2 |
| Should seem to you a pleasant turn | U2 |
| Take them to freely tear away | D |
| Or burn But oh not so I'd say | D |
| If this were M ry's room to day | D |
| That noble poet Happy town | V2 |
| Marseilles the Greek that him doth own | W2 |
| Daughter of Homer fair to see | D |
| Of Virgil's son the mother she | D |
| To you I'd say Hold children all | D |
| Let but your eyes on his work fall | D |
| These papers are the sacred nest | P2 |
| In which his crooning fancies rest | P2 |
| To morrow winged to Heaven they'll soar | X |
| For new born verse imprisoned still | D |
| In manuscript may suffer sore | X |
| At your small hands and childish will | D |
| Without a thought of bad intent | P2 |
| Of cruelty quite innocent | P2 |
| You wound their feet and bruise their wings | A |
| And make them suffer those ill things | A |
| That children's play to young birds brings | A |
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| But mine no matter what you do | P2 |
| My poetry is all in you | P2 |
| You are my inspiration bright | P2 |
| That gives my verse its purest light | P2 |
| Children whose life is made of hope | X2 |
| Whose joy within its mystic scope | X2 |
| Owes all to ignorance of ill | D |
| You have not suffered and you still | D |
| Know not what gloomy thoughts weigh down | V2 |
| The poet writer weary grown | W2 |
| What warmth is shed by your sweet smile | D |
| How much he needs to gaze awhile | D |
| Upon your shining placid brow | Y2 |
| When his own brow its ache doth know | V |
| With what delight he loves to hear | H |
| Your frolic play 'neath tree that's near | J |
| Your joyous voices mixing well | D |
| With his own song's all mournful swell | D |
| Come back then children come to me | D |
| If you wish not that I should be | D |
| As lonely now that you're afar | Z2 |
| As fisherman of Etr tat | P2 |
| Who listless on his elbow leans | A |
| Through all the weary winter scenes | A |
| As tired of thought as on Time flies | A |
| And watching only rainy skies | A |
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| MRS NEWTON CROSLAND | P2 |
Victor-marie Hugo
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