A Medley: O Swallow (the Princess) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAEFGH IJK LMN OAP QEA RSCO Swallow Swallow flying flying South | A |
Fly to her and fall upon her gilded eaves | B |
And tell her tell her what I tell to thee | C |
O tell her Swallow thou that knowest each | D |
That bright and fierce and fickle is the South | A |
And dark and true and tender is the North | E |
O Swallow Swallow if I could follow and light | F |
Upon her lattice I would pipe and trill | G |
And cheep and twitter twenty million loves | H |
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O were I thou that she might take me in | I |
And lay me on her bosom and her heart | J |
Would rock the snowy cradle till I died | K |
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Why lingereth she to clothe her heart with love | L |
Delaying as the tender ash delays | M |
To clothe herself when all the woods are green | N |
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O tell her Swallow that thy brood is flown | O |
Say to her I do but wanton in the South | A |
But in the North long since my nest is made | P |
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O tell her brief is life but love is long | Q |
And brief the sun of summer in the North | E |
And brief the moon of beauty in the South | A |
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O Swallow flying from the golden woods | R |
Fly to her and pipe and woo her and make her mine | S |
And tell her tell her that I follow thee | C |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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