Music: An Ode Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGB HIHJKLKMH BNONMPQPAN| WAS it light that spake from the darkness | A |
| or music that shone from the word | B |
| When the night was enkindled with sound | C |
| of the sun or the first born bird | B |
| Souls enthralled and entrammelled in bondage | D |
| of seasons that fall and rise | E |
| Bound fast round with the fetters of flesh | F |
| and blinded with light that dies | E |
| Lived not surely till music spake | G |
| and the spirit of life was heard | B |
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| Music sister of sunrise and herald of life to be | H |
| Smiled as dawn on the spirit of man | I |
| and the thrall was free | H |
| Slave of nature and serf of time | J |
| the bondman of life and death | K |
| Dumb with passionless patience that breathed | L |
| but forlorn and reluctant breath | K |
| Heard beheld and his soul made answer | M |
| and communed aloud with the sea | H |
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| Morning spake and he heard | B |
| and the passionate silent noon | N |
| Kept for him not silence | O |
| and soft from the mounting moon | N |
| Fell the sound of her splendour | M |
| heard as dawn's in the breathless night | P |
| Not of men but of birds whose note | Q |
| bade man's soul quicken and leap to light | P |
| And the song of it spake and the light and the darkness | A |
| of earth were as chords in tune | N |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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