The Cuckoo-clock Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEFEDD GHGHIJIKIJJ LMLNOPQPOPP RSRSTUVWXUU| Wouldst thou be taught when sleep has taken flight | A |
| By a sure voice that can most sweetly tell | B |
| How far off yet a glimpse of morning light | A |
| And if to lure the truant back be well | B |
| Forbear to covet a Repeater's stroke | C |
| That answering to thy touch will sound the hour | D |
| Better provide thee with a Cuckoo clock | E |
| For service hung behind thy chamber door | F |
| And in due time the soft spontaneous shock | E |
| The double note as if with living power | D |
| Will to composure lead or make thee blithe as bird in bower | D |
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| List Cuckoo Cuckoo oft tho' tempests howl | G |
| Or nipping frost remind thee trees are bare | H |
| How cattle pine and droop the shivering fowl | G |
| Thy spirits will seem to feed on balmy air | H |
| I speak with knowledge by that Voice beguiled | I |
| Thou wilt salute old memories as they throng | J |
| Into thy heart and fancies running wild | I |
| Through fresh green fields and budding groves among | K |
| Will make thee happy happy as a child | I |
| Of sunshine wilt thou think and flowers and song | J |
| And breathe as in a world where nothing can go wrong | J |
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| And know that even for him who shuns the day | L |
| And nightly tosses on a bed of pain | M |
| Whose joys from all but memory swept away | L |
| Must come unhoped for if they come again | N |
| Know that for him whose waking thoughts severe | O |
| As his distress is sharp would scorn my theme | P |
| The mimic notes striking upon his ear | Q |
| In sleep and intermingling with his dream | P |
| Could from sad regions send him to a dear | O |
| Delightful land of verdure shower and gleam | P |
| To mock the 'wandering' Voice beside some haunted stream | P |
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| O bounty without measure while the grace | R |
| Of Heaven doth in such wise from humblest springs | S |
| Pour pleasure forth and solaces that trace | R |
| A mazy course along familiar things | S |
| Well may our hearts have faith that blessings come | T |
| Streaming from founts above the starry sky | U |
| With angels when their own untroubled home | V |
| They leave and speed on nightly embassy | W |
| To visit earthly chambers and for whom | X |
| Yea both for souls who God's forbearance try | U |
| And those that seek his help and for his mercy sigh | U |
William Wordsworth
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