Maud Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CDEDED FGFGFG HIB JIBI KLKLK MNONON PQPQPR STSTSTST UHUHUH VWXW PYPYPYPYCome into the garden Maud | A |
For the black bat Night has flown | B |
Come into the garden Maud | A |
I am here at the gate alone | B |
And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad | A |
And the musk of the roses blown | B |
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For a breeze of morning moves | C |
And the planet of Love is on high | D |
Beginning to faint in the light that she loves | E |
On a bed of daffodil sky | D |
To faint in the light of the sun she loves | E |
To faint in his light and to die | D |
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All night have the roses heard | F |
The flute violin bassoon | G |
All night has the casement jessamine stirr'd | F |
To the dancers dancing in tune | G |
Till a silence fell with the waking bird | F |
And a hush with the setting moon | G |
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I said to the lily 'There is but one | H |
With whom she has heart to be gay | I |
When will the dancers leave her alone | B |
She is weary of dance and play ' | - |
Now half to the setting moon are gone | J |
And half to the rising day | I |
Low on the sand and loud on the stone | B |
The last wheel echoes away | I |
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I said to the rose 'The brief night goes | K |
In babble and revel and wine | L |
O young lord lover what sighs are those | K |
For one that will never be thine | L |
But mine but mine ' so I sware to the rose | K |
'For ever and ever mine ' | - |
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And the soul of the rose went into my blood | M |
As the music clash'd in the hall | N |
And long by the garden lake I stood | O |
For I heard your rivulet fall | N |
From the lake to the meadow and on to the wood | O |
Our wood that is dearer than all | N |
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From the meadow your walks have left so sweet | P |
That whenever a March wind sighs | Q |
He sets the jewel print of your feet | P |
In violets blue as your eyes | Q |
To the woody hollows in which we meet | P |
And the valleys of Paradise | R |
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The slender acacia would not shake | S |
One long milk bloom on the tree | T |
The white lake blossom fell into the lake | S |
As the pimpernel dozed on the lea | T |
But the rose was awake all night for your sake | S |
Knowing your promise to me | T |
The lilies and roses were all awake | S |
They sigh'd for the dawn and thee | T |
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Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls | U |
Come hither the dances are done | H |
In gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls | U |
Queen lily and rose in one | H |
Shine out little head sunning over with curls | U |
To the flowers and be their sun | H |
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There has fallen a splendid tear | V |
From the passion flower at the gate | W |
She is coming my dove my dear | X |
She is coming my life my fate | W |
The red rose cries 'She is near she is near ' | - |
And the white rose weeps 'She is late ' | - |
The larkspur listens 'I hear I hear ' | - |
And the lily whispers 'I wait ' | - |
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She is coming my own my sweet | P |
Were it ever so airy a tread | Y |
My heart would hear her and beat | P |
Were it earth in an earthy bed | Y |
My dust would hear her and beat | P |
Had I lain for a century dead | Y |
Would start and tremble under her feet | P |
And blossom in purple and red | Y |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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