Itylus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCABC ADEADE ADFADF GAHGAH AFEAFE ABFABF AFEAFE AIJAII AIEAIE KAEHAE| Swallow my sister O sister swallow | A |
| How can thine heart be full of the spring | B |
| A thousand summers are over and dead | C |
| What hast thou found in the spring to follow | A |
| What hast thou found in thine heart to sing | B |
| What wilt thou do when the summer is shed | C |
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| O swallow sister O fair swift swallow | A |
| Why wilt thou fly after spring to the south | D |
| The soft south whither thine heart is set | E |
| Shall not the grief of the old time follow | A |
| Shall not the song thereof cleave to thy mouth | D |
| Hast thou forgotten ere I forget | E |
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| Sister my sister O fleet sweet swallow | A |
| Thy way is long to the sun and the south | D |
| But I fulfilled of my heart's desire | F |
| Shedding my song upon height upon hollow | A |
| From tawny body and sweet small mouth | D |
| Feed the heart of the night with fire | F |
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| I the nightingale all spring through | G |
| O swallow sister O changing swallow | A |
| All spring through till the spring be done | H |
| Clothed with the light of the night on the dew | G |
| Sing while the hours and the wild birds follow | A |
| Take flight and follow and find the sun | H |
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| Sister my sister O soft light swallow | A |
| Though all things feast in the spring's guest chamber | F |
| How hast thou heart to be glad thereof yet | E |
| For where thou fliest I shall not follow | A |
| Till life forget and death remember | F |
| Till thou remember and I forget | E |
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| Swallow my sister O singing swallow | A |
| I know not how thou hast heart to sing | B |
| Hast thou the heart is it all past over | F |
| Thy lord the summer is good to follow | A |
| And fair the feet of thy lover the spring | B |
| But what wilt thou say to the spring thy lover | F |
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| O swallow sister O fleeting swallow | A |
| My heart in me is a molten ember | F |
| And over my head the waves have met | E |
| But thou wouldst tarry or I would follow | A |
| Could I forget or thou remember | F |
| Couldst thou remember and I forget | E |
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| O sweet stray sister O shifting swallow | A |
| The heart's division divideth us | I |
| Thy heart is light as a leaf of a tree | J |
| But mine goes forth among sea gulfs hollow | A |
| To the place of the slaying of Itylus | I |
| The feast of Daulis the Thracian Sea | I |
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| O swallow sister O rapid swallow | A |
| I pray thee sing not a little space | I |
| Are not the roofs and the lintels wet | E |
| The woven web that was plain to follow | A |
| The small slain body the flowerlike face | I |
| Can I remember if thou forget | E |
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| O sister sister thy first begotten | K |
| The hands that cling and the feet that follow | A |
| The voice of the child's blood crying yet | E |
| Who hath remembered me who hath forgotten | H |
| Thou hast forgotten O summer swallow | A |
| But the world shall end when I forget | E |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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