Come Down, O Maid Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQHRS TUVWXYZA2B2C2D2Come down O maid from yonder mountain height | A |
What pleasure lives in height the shepherd sang | B |
In height and cold the splendour of the hills | C |
But cease to move so near the Heavens and cease | D |
To glide a sunbeam by the blasted Pine | E |
To sit a star upon the sparkling spire | F |
And come for Love is of the valley come | G |
For Love is of the valley come thou down | H |
And find him by the happy threshold he | I |
Or hand in hand with Plenty in the maize | J |
Or red with spirted purple of the vats | K |
Or foxlike in the vine nor cares to walk | L |
With Death and Morning on the silver horns | M |
Nor wilt thou snare him in the white ravine | N |
Nor find him dropt upon the firths of ice | O |
That huddling slant in furrow cloven falls | P |
To roll the torrent out of dusky doors | Q |
But follow let the torrent dance thee down | H |
To find him in the valley let the wild | R |
Lean headed Eagles yelp alone and leave | S |
The monstrous ledges there to slope and spill | T |
Their thousand wreaths of dangling water smoke | U |
That like a broken purpose waste in air | V |
So waste not thou but come for all the vales | W |
Await thee azure pillars of the hearth | X |
Arise to thee the children call and I | Y |
Thy shepherd pipe and sweet is every sound | Z |
Sweeter thy voice but every sound is sweet | A2 |
Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn | B2 |
The moan of doves in immemorial elms | C2 |
And murmuring of innumerable bees | D2 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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