Sotto Voce Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEFGFG HIHI JKJKLMLMNOPPQRSTTSUV WVXGMGM| To Edward Thomas | A |
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| The haze of noon wanned silver grey | B |
| The soundless mansion of the sun | C |
| The air made visible in his ray | B |
| Like molten glass from furnace run | C |
| Quivered o'er heat baked turf and stone | D |
| And the flower of the gorse burned on | E |
| Burned softly as gold of a child's fair hair | F |
| Along each spiky spray and shed | G |
| Almond like incense in the air | F |
| Whereon our senses fed | G |
| - | |
| At foot a few sparse harebells blue | H |
| And still as were the friend's dark eyes | I |
| That dwelt on mine transfix d through | H |
| With sudden ecstatic surmise | I |
| - | |
| 'Hst ' he cried softly smiling and lo | J |
| Stealing amidst that maze gold green | K |
| I heard a whispering music flow | J |
| From guileful throat of bird unseen | K |
| So delicate the straining ear | L |
| Scarce carried its faint syllabling | M |
| Into a heart caught up to hear | L |
| That inmost pondering | M |
| Of bird like self with self We stood | N |
| In happy trance like solitude | O |
| Hearkening a lullay grieved and sweet | P |
| As when on isle uncharted beat | P |
| 'Gainst coral at the palm tree's root | Q |
| With brine clear snow white foam afloat | R |
| The wailing not of water or wind | S |
| A husht far wild divine lament | T |
| When Prospero his wizardry bent | T |
| Winged Ariel to bind | S |
| Then silence and o'er flooding noon | U |
| I raised my head smiled too And he | V |
| Moved his great hand the magic gone | W |
| Gently amused to see | V |
| My ignorant wonderment He sighed | X |
| 'It was a nightingale ' he said | G |
| 'That sotto voce cons the song | M |
| He'll sing when dark is spread | G |
| And Night's vague hours are sweet and long | M |
| And we are laid abed ' | - |
Walter De La Mare
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