The Roussalka Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDE FGHGBIBI JHJHDADA KAKALMLM IAIANAOA APAPA AB QHQHARARA LEGEND OF THE WATER SPRITE | A |
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In forest depths beside a mere | B |
A monk once made his habitation | C |
Absorbed in penances severe | B |
In fast and prayer he sought salvation | C |
Already by his own poor spade | D |
His grave was hollowed to receive him | E |
And every day the good saint prayed | D |
That Heaven from earth would soon relieve him | E |
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One summer's eve the hermit poor | F |
At prayer within his narrow room | G |
Looked out beyond his humble door | H |
And saw the forest wrapped in gloom | G |
Night mists were rising from the mere | B |
Between the clouds the moon 'gan peep | I |
The monk unto the pool drew near | B |
And gazed into its waters deep | I |
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He saw himself drew back perturbed | J |
By fears he ne'er had known before | H |
For lo the waters were disturbed | J |
Then suddenly grew calm once more | H |
'While fitful as a twilight shade | D |
Than virgin snow more purely white | A |
From out the pool appeared a maid | D |
Approaching in the silver light | A |
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She shook the bright drops from her hair | K |
And gazed upon the anchorite | A |
To look upon her form so fair | K |
The good monk trembled with affright | A |
And he beheld her from afar | L |
With head and hand strange signals make | M |
Then swifter than a shooting star | L |
Dive back into the silent lake | M |
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All night the hermit could not sleep | I |
All day in agony he prayed | A |
But still he could not choose but keep | I |
The image of that wondrous maid | A |
Before him So when day did wane | N |
And overhead the moon was bright | A |
He watched and saw her come again | O |
In all her beauty dazzling white | A |
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She beckoned to him where he stood | A |
And gave him greeting glad and free | P |
She played and splashed about the flood | A |
She laughed and danced in childish glee | P |
As softly to the monk she cried | A |
' Come hither monk and join me here ' | - |
Then suddenly she dipped to hide | A |
Her beauty in the darkling mere | B |
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The third day came grown mad with love | Q |
The hermit sought th' enchanted shore | H |
Ere yet night's veil was drawn above | Q |
And waited for the maid once more | H |
Dawn broke the monk had disappeared | A |
And now the frightened children say | R |
He haunts the pool and lo his beard | A |
Floats on the water night and day | R |
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
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