Raptures Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCDED FGHGIJKJ| Sing for the sun your lyric lark | A |
| Of twice ten thousand notes | B |
| Sing for the moon you nightingales | B |
| Whose light shall kiss your throats | B |
| Sing sparrows for the soft warm rain | C |
| To wet your feathers through | D |
| And when a rainbow's in the sky | E |
| Sing you cuckoo Cuckoo | D |
| - | |
| Sing for your five blue eggs fond thrush | F |
| By many a leaf concealed | G |
| You starlings wrens and blackbirds sing | H |
| In every wood and field | G |
| While I who fail to give my love | I |
| Long raptures twice as fine | J |
| Will for her beauty breathe this one | K |
| A sigh that's more divine | J |
William Henry Davies
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