The Ways Are Green Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDED FDGDHDDD IJKJLDKDThe ways are green with the gladdening sheen | A |
Of the young year's fairest daughter | B |
O the shadows that fleet o'er the springing wheat | C |
O the magic of running water | B |
The spirit of spring is in every thing | D |
The banners of spring are streaming | D |
We march to a tune from the fifes of June | E |
And life's a dream worth dreaming | D |
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It's all very well to sit and spell | F |
At the lesson there's no gainsaying | D |
But what the deuce are wont and use | G |
When the whole mad world's a maying | D |
When the meadow glows and the orchard snows | H |
And the air's with love motes teeming | D |
When fancies break and the senses wake | D |
O life's a dream worth dreaming | D |
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What Nature has writ with her lusty wit | I |
Is worded so wisely and kindly | J |
That whoever has dipped in her manuscript | K |
Must up and follow her blindly | J |
Now the summer prime is her blithest rhyme | L |
In the being and the seeming | D |
And they that have heard the overword | K |
Know life's a dream worth dreaming | D |
William Ernest Henley
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