Charms Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD EEFF DD GG HH IJ KL| She walks as lightly as the fly | A |
| Skates on the water in July | A |
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| To hear her moving petticoat | B |
| For me is music's highest note | B |
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| Stones are not heard when her feet pass | C |
| No more than tumps of moss or grass | C |
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| When she sits still she's like the flower | D |
| To be a butterfly next hour | D |
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| The brook laughs not more sweet when he | E |
| Trips over pebbles suddenly | E |
| My Love like him can whisper low | F |
| When he comes where green cresses grow | F |
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| She rises like the lark that hour | D |
| He goes halfway to meet a shower | D |
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| A fresher drink is in her looks | G |
| Than Nature gives me or old books | G |
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| When I in my Love's shadow sit | H |
| I do not miss the sun one bit | H |
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| When she is near my arms can hold | I |
| All that's worth having in this world | J |
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| And when I know not where she is | K |
| Nothing can come but comes amiss | L |
William Henry Davies
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