Epithalamium Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEF GGAAHH IIJJKKDD LLMMNN OOPPQQRRSSTTUUVV| He is here Urania's son | A |
| Hymen come from Helicon | B |
| God that glads the lover's heart | C |
| He is here to join and part | C |
| So the groomsman quits your side | D |
| And the bridegroom seeks the bride | D |
| Friend and comrade yield you o'er | E |
| To her that hardly loves you more | F |
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| Now the sun his skyward beam | G |
| Has tilted from the Ocean stream | G |
| Light the Indies laggard sun | A |
| Happy bridegroom day is done | A |
| And the star from OEta's steep | H |
| Calls to bed but not to sleep | H |
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| Happy bridegroom Hesper brings | I |
| All desired and timely things | I |
| All whom morning sends to roam | J |
| Hesper loves to lead them home | J |
| Home return who him behold | K |
| Child to mother sheep to fold | K |
| Bird to nest from wandering wide | D |
| Happy bridegroom seek your bride | D |
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| Pour it out the golden cup | L |
| Given and guarded brimming up | L |
| Safe through jostling markets borne | M |
| And the thicket of the thorn | M |
| Folly spurned and danger past | N |
| Pour it to the god at last | N |
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| Now to smother noise and light | O |
| Is stolen abroad the wildering night | O |
| And the blotting shades confuse | P |
| Path and meadow full of dews | P |
| And the high heavens that all control | Q |
| Turn in silence round the pole | Q |
| Catch the starry beams they shed | R |
| Prospering the marriage bed | R |
| And breed the land that reared your prime | S |
| Sons to stay the rot of time | S |
| All is quiet no alarms | T |
| Nothing fear of nightly harms | T |
| Safe you sleep on guarded ground | U |
| And in silent circle round | U |
| The thoughts of friends keep watch and ward | V |
| Harnessed angels hand on sword | V |
Alfred Edward Housman
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