On Hearing Mrs. Woodhouse Play The Harpsichord Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFGF HIJIKLMN| We poets pride ourselves on what | A |
| We feel and not what we achieve | B |
| The world may call our children fools | C |
| Enough for us that we conceive | B |
| A little wren that loves the grass | D |
| Can be as proud as any lark | E |
| That tumbles in a cloudless sky | F |
| Up near the sun till he becomes | G |
| The apple of that shining eye | F |
| - | |
| So lady I would never dare | H |
| To hear your music ev'ry day | I |
| With those great bursts that send my nerves | J |
| In waves to pound my heart away | I |
| And those small notes that run like mice | K |
| Bewitched by light else on those keys | L |
| My tombs of song you should engrave | M |
| 'My music stronger than his own | N |
| Has made this poet my dumb slave ' | - |
William Henry Davies
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