To A Lost Melody Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFGGHHIIEEAA JJKKAABBLLMMDDNNOOPQ RSIIDDJJTT

Thou art not dead O sweet lost melodyA
Sung beyond memoryA
When golden to the winds this world of oursB
Waved wild with boundless flowersB
Sung in some past when wildernesses wereC
Not dead not dead lost airD
Yet in the ages long where lurkest thouE
And what soul knows thee nowE
Wert thou not given to sweeten every windF
From that o'erburdened mindF
That bore thee through the young world and that tongueG
By which thou first wert sungG
Was not the holy choir the endless domeH
And nature all thy homeH
Did not the warm gale clasp thee to his breastI
Lulling thy storms to restI
And is the June air laden with thee nowE
Passing the summer boughE
And is the dawn wind on a lonely seaA
Balmy with thoughts of theeA
To rock on daybreak winds dost thou rejoiceJ
As first on his strong voiceJ
Whose radiant morning soul did give thee birthK
Gave thee to heaven and earthK
Or did each bird win one dear note of theeA
To pipe eternallyA
Art thou the secret of the small field flowersB
Nodding thy time for hoursB
Blown by the happy winds from hill to hillL
And such a secret stillL
Or wert thou rapt awhile to other spheresM
To gladden tenderer earsM
Doth music's soul contain thee precious airD
Sleepest thou clasped thereD
Until a time shall come for thee to startN
Into some unborn heartN
Then wilt thou as the clouds of ages rollO
Thou migratory soulO
Amid a different wilder wildernessP
In crowds that throng and pressQ
Revive thy blessed cadences forgottenR
In some soul new begottenS
Oh wilt thou ever tire of thy long restI
On nature's silent breastI
And wilt thou leave thy rainbow showers to bearD
A part in human careD
Forsake thy boundless silence to make choiceJ
Of some pathetic voiceJ
Forsake thy stars thy suns thy moons thy skiesT
For man's desiring sighsT

Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell



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