The Princess: A Medley: O Swallow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAEFGH IJK LMN OAP QEA RSC| O 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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