To A Lost Melody Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFGGHHIIEEAA JJKKAABBLLMMDDNNOOPQ RSIIDDJJTTThou art not dead O sweet lost melody | A |
Sung beyond memory | A |
When golden to the winds this world of ours | B |
Waved wild with boundless flowers | B |
Sung in some past when wildernesses were | C |
Not dead not dead lost air | D |
Yet in the ages long where lurkest thou | E |
And what soul knows thee now | E |
Wert thou not given to sweeten every wind | F |
From that o'erburdened mind | F |
That bore thee through the young world and that tongue | G |
By which thou first wert sung | G |
Was not the holy choir the endless dome | H |
And nature all thy home | H |
Did not the warm gale clasp thee to his breast | I |
Lulling thy storms to rest | I |
And is the June air laden with thee now | E |
Passing the summer bough | E |
And is the dawn wind on a lonely sea | A |
Balmy with thoughts of thee | A |
To rock on daybreak winds dost thou rejoice | J |
As first on his strong voice | J |
Whose radiant morning soul did give thee birth | K |
Gave thee to heaven and earth | K |
Or did each bird win one dear note of thee | A |
To pipe eternally | A |
Art thou the secret of the small field flowers | B |
Nodding thy time for hours | B |
Blown by the happy winds from hill to hill | L |
And such a secret still | L |
Or wert thou rapt awhile to other spheres | M |
To gladden tenderer ears | M |
Doth music's soul contain thee precious air | D |
Sleepest thou clasped there | D |
Until a time shall come for thee to start | N |
Into some unborn heart | N |
Then wilt thou as the clouds of ages roll | O |
Thou migratory soul | O |
Amid a different wilder wilderness | P |
In crowds that throng and press | Q |
Revive thy blessed cadences forgotten | R |
In some soul new begotten | S |
Oh wilt thou ever tire of thy long rest | I |
On nature's silent breast | I |
And wilt thou leave thy rainbow showers to bear | D |
A part in human care | D |
Forsake thy boundless silence to make choice | J |
Of some pathetic voice | J |
Forsake thy stars thy suns thy moons thy skies | T |
For man's desiring sighs | T |
Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
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