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BEAUTIFUL INSIDE
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Figure of

Rhyming

Rhyme

Speech

Words

Sceme

Appearance can be deceptive,

And to the superficial gaze

The outside looks dull and grey

Alliterration

gaze ways

Plain looking in many ways,

Yet, when a crack causes

(crack causes)

Water to seep slowly through,

(seep slowly)

c
a

through view

can split to reveal

b
c

A dazzling sight to view!

(split sight)

Piles of purple crystals

(piles purple)

Sparkling in the light,

Such wonderful inner beauty

Now apparent for our delight!

Have you noticed how some people,
May seem plain

(people plain )

b
(take time)

would we see?

Perhaps a beautiful heart

b
a

plain can be?

Yet, if we take time to peer deeper,

Then, what

light delight

c
be see

(What would we)

b
a

We never thought was there,

Where an

Is waiting its time to share?

there share b

Yes, a warm glowing inner beauty

(beauty before)

Will emerge before your eyes,

(emerge eyes)

A newly discovered

For you to cherish, and to prize!

- Paul Holmes

eyes prize

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PIANO
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Softly in the dusk,

Rhyming

Rhyme

Words

Sceme

Alliterration

a women is singing to me;

(softly singing)

Taking me back down the

me see

(sitting strings)

vista of years, till l see

A child sitting under the piano,

in the

of the

strings

And pressing the small, poised feet

strings sings
(pressing poised)

of a mother who smiles as she sings.

Inspite of myself, the insidious

b
b

(small smiles)
(she sings)

mastery of song

(myself mastery)

song belong

Betrays me back, till the heart

of me weeos to belong

(betrays belong - back)

To the old Sunday evenings at home,

with winter outside

(oldoutside)

a
outside guide

(parlourpiano)

And hymns in the cosy parlour,

the

So now it is vain for the singer

to burst into clamour

clamour glamour a

With the great black piano

(great glamour)

appassionato. The glamour

Of childish days is upon me,

(me manhood)

my manhood is cast
Down in the
I

cast past

,
for the past.

- D.H.Lawrence

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MANLINESS
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Rhyming

Rhyme

Words

Sceme

Scheme

(An extract from poem if)

If you can dream and not
Anaohora if repeated first 3 lines
make dreams your master; Alliteration
master disaster
If you can think and not make
(master make)
thoughts your aim;
(think thoughts)

a
b

If you can meet with

a

And treat t

just the same;

If you can force your heart,
and nerve, and sinew
To serve your turn long
after they are gone;
And so hold on when there
is nothing in you
Except the will which
says to them, Hold on.
If you can fill the
With sixty seconds worth of
distance run,
Your is the eath and
everything thats in it,
And what is more, youll be
a man, my son.

(treat those - two)

b
sinew you

Assanance
(after are)

a
b

gone hold on
a
b
minute in it

run sun

(sixty seconds)

Assanance
(earth everything)

(more man - my)

- Rudyard Kipling

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GOING FOR WATER

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The well was dry beside the door,

Alliteration

And so we went with pail and can

(dry door)

Across the fields behind the house

(we went)

To seek the brook if still it ran;

(seek still)

can ran

Not loth to have excuse to go,

Because the autumn eve was fair

fair there

(Though chill), because the fields were ours,

And by the brook our woods were there.

We ran as if

meet the moon

That slowly dawned behind the trees,

(meet moon)

The barren boughs without the leaves,

(barren boughs)

Without the birds, without the breeze.

(birds breeze)

But once within the wood, we paused

(within wood - we)

that hid us from the moon,

Ready to run to hiding new
With laughter when s

trees leaves breeze

moon-soon
(she soon)

b
c

found us soon.

Each laid on other a staying hand

Assanance

To listen ere we dared to look,

(listen look)

And in the hush we joined to make

(heard heard)

We heard, we knew we heard the brook.

(we we - we)

look brook

Anote as from a single place,

A slender

fall that made

made blade

Now drops that floated in the pool

, and now a

-Robert Frost

b
c
b

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THE CRY OF THE CHILDREN

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For oh, say the children, we are weary,

Alliteration

And we cannot run or leap.

(we weary)

wearly merely

If we cared for any meadows, it were merely

(meadows merely)

leap sleep

To drop down in them and sleep.

Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping---

(sorely stooping)

We fall upon our faces, trying to go;

(fall faces)

stooping drooping

And, underneath our heavy eyelids drooping,

The reddest flower would look

a
go snow

For, all day, we drag our burden tiring,

Through the

, underground----

Or, all day, we drive the wheels of iron

(we wheels)

In the factories, round and round.

(round round)

For, all day, the wheels are

, turning,---

c
underground round

turning burning

Their wind comes in our faces,---

Till our hearts turn,--- our head, with pulses burning, (hearts head)

faces places

And the walls turn in their places---

(long light)

Turns the sky in the high window blank and

---

reelingceiling

Turns the long light that droppeth down the wall---

Anaphora

wall all

Turn the black flies that crawl along the ceiling---

(crawl ceiling)

All are turning, all the day, and we with all,---

(dropppeth down)

And, all day the the iron wheels are droning;

And sometimes we could pray,

(breaking out ina mad moaning)

! Be silent for to-day!
- Elezabeth

Barret Browning

droning moaning

pray day

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MIGRANT BIRD
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The globes my world. The

Words

kin begin din

Rhyme
Sceme

I care not were the skies begin;

Alliteration

I spread my wings through all the din;

(fears,fright,

Through fears and flight i fly my flight.

fly,flight)

No walls for me, no

gaes states

No flags, no machine guns that blast

Citizens of those border states-

Brothers of her brothers sons.

No maps, no boundaries to block

(boundaries block)

My sojourn into unknown lands.

(spawn, splash, spills)

I spawn and s

in distant spills,

I breed my brood wherer i will.

c
(breed brood)

I wont look down. No i will not.

With speed of wings l hasten past

And close my eyes against the sun

(dream dreams)

To dream my dreams and make them last

(my make)

- Famida Y.Baheer

c
past last

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SHILPI
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Steady throb
Then staccato rhythm
to oblivious ears
The tempo is fickleNow synchronized, now not,
m
m
Now sure, now steeped in thought.
Bleary eyes,
Sinews taut yet steady.
Decades of practice
Heirlooms of rich traditions
In stark evidence
The knocking softens, fades,
To a mild judicious tap.
takes form
Rugged lines melt,
Sharp edges merge
Into smooth well moulded curves
He steps back, surveys with
Close scrutiny, then sharp critical glare
The days of toil,
Hammer and chisel laid asideOnly bloodshot eyes betray
Deep pride, then reverence,
Lo!

Alliteration

(mirror moods)

(sinew steady)

(merge moulded)

(steps surveys)
(scrutiny sharp)
(close critical)
(bloodshot betray)