To Some Birds Flown Away Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Enfants Oh revenezA
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XXII AprilB
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Children come back come back I sayA
You whom my folly chased awayA
A moment since from this my roomC
With bristling wrath and words of doomC
What had you done you bandits smallD
With lips as red as roses allD
What crime what wild and hapless deedE
What porcelain vase by you was splitF
To thousand pieces Did you needE
For pastime as you handled itF
Some Gothic missal to enrichG
With your designs fantasticalD
Or did your tearing fingers fallD
On some old picture Which oh whichG
Your dreadful fault Not one of theseA
Only when left yourselves to pleaseA
This morning but a moment hereH
'Mid papers tinted by my mindI
You took some embryo verses nearJ
Half formed but fully well designedI
To open out Your hearts desireK
Was but to throw them on the fireK
Then watch the tinder for the sightL
Of shining sparks that twinkle brightL
As little boats that sail at nightL
Or like the window lights that springM
From out the dark at eveningM
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'Twas all and you were well contentN
Fine loss was this for anger's ventN
A strophe ill made midst your playD
Sweet sound that chased the words awayD
In stormy flight An ode quite newO
With rhymes inflated stanzas tooO
That panted moving lazilyD
And heavy Alexandrine linesA
That seemed to jostle bodilyD
Like children full of play designsA
That spring at once from schoolroom's formP
Instead of all this angry stormP
Another might have thanked you wellD
For saving prey from that grim cellD
That hollowed den 'neath journals greatQ
Where editors who poets floutR
With their demoniac laughter shoutR
And I have scolded you What fateQ
For charming dwarfs who never meantN
To anger Hercules And IS
Have frightened you My chair I sentN
Back to the wall and then let flyS
A shower of words the envious useA
Get out I said with hard abuseA
Leave me alone alone I sayD
Poor man alone Ah well a dayD
What fine result what triumph rareT
As one turns from the coffin'd deadU
So left you me I could but stareT
Upon the door through which you fledU
I proud and grave but punished quiteL
And what care you for this my plightL
You have recovered libertyD
Fresh air and lovely sceneryD
The spacious park and wished for grassA
The running stream where you can throwV
A blade to watch what comes to passA
Blue sky and all the spring can showV
Nature serenely fair to seeD
The book of birds and spirits freeD
God's poem worth much more than mineW
Where flowers for perfect stanzas shineW
Flowers that a child may pluck in playD
No harsh voice frightening it awayD
And I'm alone all pleasure o'erK
Alone with pedant called EnnuiD
For since the morning at my doorX
Ennui has waited patientlyD
That docto r London born you markY
One Sunday in December darkY
Poor little ones he loved you notZ
And waited till the chance he gotZ
To enter as you passed awayD
And in the very corner whereT
You played with frolic laughter gayD
He sighs and yawns with weary airT
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What can I do Shall I read booksA
Or write more verse or turn fond looksA
Upon enamels blue sea greenA2
And white on insects rare as seenA2
Upon my Dresden china wareT
Or shall I touch the globe and careT
To make the heavens turn uponB2
Its axis No not one not oneC2
Of all these things care I to doO
All wearies me I think of youO
In truth with you my sunshine fledU
And gayety with your light treadU
Glad noise that set me dreaming stillD
'Twas my delight to watch your willD
And mark you point with finger tipsA
To help your spelling out a wordD2
To see the pearls between your lipsA
When I your joyous laughter heardD2
Your honest brows that looked so trueO
And said Oh yes to each intentN
Your great bright eyes that loved to viewO
With admiration innocentE2
My fine old S vres the eager thoughtF2
That every kind of knowledge soughtF2
The elbow push with Come and seeD
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Oh certes spirits sylphs there beD
And fays the wind blows often hereH
The gnomes that squat the ceiling nearJ
In corners made by old books dimG2
The long backed dwarfs those goblins grimG2
That seem at home 'mong vases rareT
And chat to them with friendly airT
Oh how the joyous demon throngH2
Must all have laughed with laughter longH2
To see you on my rough drafts fallD
My bald hexameters and allD
The mournful miserable bandI2
And drag them with relentless handI2
From out their box with true delightL
To set them each and all a lightL
And then with clapping hands to leanA2
Above the stove and watch the sceneA2
How to the mass deformed there cameJ2
A soul that showed itself in flameJ2
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Bright tricksy children oh I prayD
Come back and sing and dance awayD
And chatter too sometimes you mayD
A giddy group a big book seizeA
Or sometimes if it so you pleaseA
With nimble step you'll run to meD
And push the arm that holds the penK2
Till on my finished verse will beD
A stroke that's like a steeple whenK2
Seen suddenly upon a plainL2
My soul longs for your breath againK2
To warm it Oh return come hereH
With laugh and babble and no fearJ
When with your shadow you obscureM2
The book I read for I am sureM2
Oh madcaps terrible and dearJ
That you were right and I was wrongH2
But who has ne'er with scolding tongueN2
Blamed out of season Pardon meD
You must forgive for sad are weD
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The young should not be hard and coldO2
And unforgiving to the oldO2
Children each morn your souls ope outR
Like windows to the shining dayD
Oh miracle that comes aboutR
The miracle that children gayD
Have happiness and goodness tooO
Caressed by destiny are youO
Charming you are if you but playD
But we with living overwroughtF2
And full of grave and sombre thoughtF2
Are snappish oft dear little menK2
We have ill tempered days and thenK2
Are quite unjust and full of careT
It rained this morning and the airT
Was chill but clouds that dimm'd the skyS
Have passed Things spited me and whyS
But now my heart repents BeholdO2
What 'twas that made me cross and scoldO2
All by and by you'll understandI2
When brows are mark'd by Time's stern handI2
Then you will comprehend be sureM2
When older that's to say less pureM2
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The fault I freely own was mineW
But oh for pardon now I pineW
Enough my punishment to meetP2
You must forgive I do entreatP2
With clasped hands praying oh come backQ2
Make peace and you shall nothing lackQ2
See now my pencils paper hereH
And pointless compasses and dearJ
Old lacquer work and stoneware clearJ
Through glass protecting all man's toysA
So coveted by girls and boysA
Great China monsters bodies muchR2
Like cucumbers you all shall touchR2
I yield up all my picture rareT
Found beneath antique rubbish heapS2
My great and tapestried oak chairT
I will from you no longer keepS2
You shall about my table climbT2
And dance or drag without a cryS
From me as if it were a crimeT2
Even I'll look on patientlyD
If you your jagged toys all throwV
Upon my carved bench till it showV
The wood is torn and freely tooP2
I'll leave in your own hands to viewP2
My pictured Bible oft desiredP2
But which to touch your fear inspiredP2
With God in emperor's robes attiredP2
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Then if to see my verses burnU2
Should seem to you a pleasant turnU2
Take them to freely tear awayD
Or burn But oh not so I'd sayD
If this were M ry's room to dayD
That noble poet Happy townV2
Marseilles the Greek that him doth ownW2
Daughter of Homer fair to seeD
Of Virgil's son the mother sheD
To you I'd say Hold children allD
Let but your eyes on his work fallD
These papers are the sacred nestP2
In which his crooning fancies restP2
To morrow winged to Heaven they'll soarX
For new born verse imprisoned stillD
In manuscript may suffer soreX
At your small hands and childish willD
Without a thought of bad intentP2
Of cruelty quite innocentP2
You wound their feet and bruise their wingsA
And make them suffer those ill thingsA
That children's play to young birds bringsA
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But mine no matter what you doP2
My poetry is all in youP2
You are my inspiration brightP2
That gives my verse its purest lightP2
Children whose life is made of hopeX2
Whose joy within its mystic scopeX2
Owes all to ignorance of illD
You have not suffered and you stillD
Know not what gloomy thoughts weigh downV2
The poet writer weary grownW2
What warmth is shed by your sweet smileD
How much he needs to gaze awhileD
Upon your shining placid browY2
When his own brow its ache doth knowV
With what delight he loves to hearH
Your frolic play 'neath tree that's nearJ
Your joyous voices mixing wellD
With his own song's all mournful swellD
Come back then children come to meD
If you wish not that I should beD
As lonely now that you're afarZ2
As fisherman of Etr tatP2
Who listless on his elbow leansA
Through all the weary winter scenesA
As tired of thought as on Time fliesA
And watching only rainy skiesA
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MRS NEWTON CROSLANDP2

Victor-marie Hugo



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