-and Ask Ye Why These Sad Tears Stream?- Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BB CDCD BDBD EBFB BDBD BGBG HHHH| 'And ask ye why these sad tears stream ' | A |
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| Te somnia nostra reducunt | B |
| OVID | B |
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| And ask ye why these sad tears stream | C |
| Why these wan eyes are dim with weeping | D |
| I had a dream a lovely dream | C |
| Of her that in the grave is sleeping | D |
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| I saw her as twas yesterday | B |
| The bloom upon her cheek still glowing | D |
| And round her play d a golden ray | B |
| And on her brows were gay flowers blowing | D |
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| With angel hand she swept a lyre | E |
| A garland red with roses bound it | B |
| Its strings were wreath d with lambent fire | F |
| And amaranth was woven round it | B |
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| I saw her mid the realms of light | B |
| In everlasting radiance gleaming | D |
| Co equal with the seraphs bright | B |
| Mid thousand thousand angels beaming | D |
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| I strove to reach her when behold | B |
| Those fairy forms of bliss Elysian | G |
| And all that rich scene wrapt in gold | B |
| Faded in air a lovely vision | G |
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| And I awoke but oh to me | H |
| That waking hour was doubly weary | H |
| And yet I could not envy thee | H |
| Although so blest and I so dreary | H |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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