A New Madrigal To An Old Melody Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDCDCECE FGFGH HE IJIJKEK CLC CECE| It is supposed that Shadow of a Leaf uses the word 'clear' in a | A |
| more ancient sense of 'beautiful ' | B |
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| As along a dark pine bough in slender white mystery | C |
| The moon lay to listen above the thick fern | D |
| In a deep dreaming wood that is older than history | C |
| I heard a lad sing and I stilled me to learn | D |
| So rarely he lilted his long forgot litany | C |
| Fall April fall April in dew on our dearth | E |
| Bring balm and bring poppy bring deep sleepy dittany | C |
| For Marian our clear May so long laid in earth | E |
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| Then I drew back the branches I saw him that chanted it | F |
| I saw his fool's bauble I knew his old grief | G |
| I knew that old greenwood and the shadow that haunted it | F |
| My fool my lost jester my Shadow of a Leaf | G |
| And 'why ' I said 'why all this while have you left me so | H |
| Luckless in melody lonely in mirth ' | - |
| 'Oh why ' he sang 'why has this world then bereft me so | H |
| Soon of my Marian so long laid in earth | E |
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| 'In the years that are gone ' he said 'love was more fortunate | I |
| Grief was our minstrel of things that endure | J |
| Now ashes and dust and this world grow importunate | I |
| Time has no sorrow that time cannot cure | J |
| Once we could lose and the loss was worth cherishing | K |
| Now we may win but O where is the worth | E |
| Memory and true love ' he whispered 'are perishing | K |
| With Marian our clear May so long laid in earth ' | - |
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| 'Ah no ' I said 'no Since we grieve for our grief again | C |
| Touch the old strings Let us try the old stave | L |
| And memory may wake like my Shadow of a Leaf again | C |
| Singing of hope in the dark by a grave ' | - |
| So we sang it together that long forgot litany | C |
| Fall April fall April bring new grief to birth | E |
| Bring wild herb of grace and bring deep healing dittany | C |
| For Marian our clear May so long laid in earth | E |
Alfred Noyes
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