The Water-nymph Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFGHIHI DJDKLMNM FOFOPQLQ RMSMTUDU VWXWA AF YZMA2NB2PB2| In lakeside leafy groves a friar | A |
| Escaped all worries there he passed | B |
| His summer days in constant prayer | C |
| Deep studies and eternal fast | B |
| Already with a humble shovel | D |
| The elder dug himself a grave | E |
| As calling saints to bless his hovel | D |
| Death nothing other did he crave | E |
| - | |
| So once upon a falling night he | F |
| Was bowing by his wilted shack | G |
| With meekest prayer to the Almighty | F |
| The grove was turning slowly black | G |
| Above the lake a mist was lifting | H |
| Through milky clouds across the sky | I |
| The ruddy moon was softly drifting | H |
| When water drew the friar's eye | I |
| - | |
| He's looking puzzled full of trouble | D |
| Of fear he cannot quite explain | J |
| He sees the waves begin to bubble | D |
| And suddenly grow calm again | K |
| Then white as first snow in the highlands | L |
| Light footed as nocturnal shade | M |
| There comes ashore and sits in silence | N |
| Upon the bank a naked maid | M |
| - | |
| She eyes the monk and brushes gently | F |
| Her hair and water off her arms | O |
| He shakes with fear and looks intently | F |
| At her and at her lovely charms | O |
| With eager hand she waves and beckons | P |
| Nods quickly smiles as from afar | Q |
| And shoots within two flashing seconds | L |
| Into still water like a star | Q |
| - | |
| The glum old man slept not an instant | R |
| All day not even once he prayed | M |
| Before his eyes still hung and glistened | S |
| The wondrous the relentless shade | M |
| The grove puts on its gown of nightfall | T |
| The moon walks on the cloudy floor | U |
| And there's the maiden pale delightful | D |
| Reclining on the spellbound shore | U |
| - | |
| She looks at him her hair she brushes | V |
| Blows airy kisses gestures wild | W |
| Plays with the waves caresses splashes | X |
| Now laughs now whimpers like a child | W |
| Moans tenderly calls louder louder | A |
| 'Come monk come monk To me to me ' | - |
| Then disappears in limpid water | A |
| And all is silent instantly | F |
| - | |
| On the third day the zealous hermit | Y |
| Was sitting by the shore in love | Z |
| Awaiting the delightful mermaid | M |
| As shade was covering the grove | A2 |
| Dark ceded to the sun's emergence | N |
| Our monk had wholly disappeared | B2 |
| Before a crowd of local urchins | P |
| While fishing found his hoary beard | B2 |
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
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