Rosalind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCBEEFG A HFHFGIHFBHJJHKKDLDEL EED A BBCLCLMMMGBBNNDOPQO| I | A |
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| My Rosalind my Rosalind | B |
| My frolic falcon with bright eyes | C |
| Whose free delight from any height of rapid flight | D |
| Stoops at all game that wing the skies | C |
| My Rosalind my Rosalind | B |
| My bright eyed wild eyed falcon whither | E |
| Careless both of wind and weather | E |
| Whither fly ye what game spy ye | F |
| Up or down the streaming wind | G |
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| II | A |
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| The quick lark's closest caroll'd strains | H |
| The shadow rushing up the sea | F |
| The lightning flash atween the rains | H |
| The sunlight driving down the lea | F |
| The leaping stream the very wind | G |
| That will not stay upon his way | I |
| To stoop the cowslip to the plains | H |
| Is not so clear and bold and free | F |
| As you my falcon Rosalind | B |
| You care not for another's pains | H |
| Because you are the soul of joy | J |
| Bright metal all without alloy | J |
| Life shoots and glances thro' your veins | H |
| And flashes off a thousand ways | K |
| Thro' lips and eyes in subtle rays | K |
| Your hawk eyes are keen and bright | D |
| Keen with triump' watching still | L |
| To pierce me thro' with pointed light | D |
| But oftentimes they flash and glitter | E |
| Like sunshine on a dancing rill | L |
| And your words are seeming bitter | E |
| Sharp and few but seeming bitter | E |
| From excess of swift delight | D |
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| III | A |
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| Come down come home my Rosalind | B |
| My gay young hawk my Rosalind | B |
| Too long you keep the upper skies | C |
| Too long you roam and wheel at will | L |
| But we must hood your random eyes | C |
| That care not whom they kill | L |
| And your cheek whose brilliant hue | M |
| Is so sparkling fresh to view | M |
| Some red heath flower in the dew | M |
| Touch'd with sunrise We must bind | G |
| And keep you fast my Rosalind | B |
| Fast fast my wild eyed Rosalind | B |
| And clip your wings and make you love | N |
| When we have lured you from above | N |
| And that delight of frolic flight by day or night | D |
| From North to South | O |
| We'll bind you fast in silken cords | P |
| And kiss away the bitter words | Q |
| From off your rosy mouth | O |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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