Songs Written To Welsh Airs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIH JKJK LMNM OLON CLCN OLON CLCN PQRRS CCRRS CCRRS FFRRS| How fondly I gaze on the fast falling leaves | A |
| That mark as I wander the summer's decline | B |
| And then I exclaim while my conscious heart heaves | A |
| Thus early to droop and to perish be mine | B |
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| Yet once I remember in moments long past | C |
| Most dear to my sight was the spring's opening bloom | D |
| But then my youth's spring sorrow had not o'ercast | C |
| Nor taught me with fondness to look on the tomb | D |
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| Fair Spring now no longer these grief faded eyes | E |
| Thy rich glowing beauties with pleasure can see | F |
| Thy pale sickly hues chilly Autumn I prize | E |
| They suit blighted hopes and are emblems of me | F |
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| Where dost thou bide blessed soul of my love | G |
| Is ether thy dwelling O whisper me where | H |
| Rapt in remembrance while lonely I rove | I |
| I gaze on bright clouds and I fancy thee there | H |
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| Or to thy bower when musing I go | J |
| I think 't is thy voice that I hear in the breeze | K |
| Softly it seems to speak peace to my woe | J |
| And life once again for a moment can please | K |
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| If this be phrensy alone 't is so dear | L |
| That long may the pleasing delusion be nigh | M |
| Still Ellen's voice in the breeze may I hear | N |
| Still see in bright clouds the kind beams of her eye | M |
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| Low hung the dark clouds on Plinlimmon's tall peak | O |
| And slowly yet surely the winter drew near | L |
| When Ellen sweet Ellen a tear on her cheek | O |
| Exclaimed as we parted In May I'll be here | N |
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| How swiftly I ran up the mountain's steep height | C |
| To catch the last glimpse of an object so dear | L |
| And when I no longer could keep her in sight | C |
| I thought on her promise In May I'll be here | N |
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| Now gladly I mark from Plinlimmon's tall peak | O |
| The low hanging vapours and clouds disappear | L |
| And climb the rough mountain thence Ellen to seek | O |
| Repeating her promise In May I'll be here | N |
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| But vainly I gaze the wide prospect around | C |
| 'T is May yet no Ellen returning is near | L |
| Oh when shall I see her when feel my heart bound | C |
| As sweetly she cries It is May and I'm here | N |
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| You ask why these mountains delight me no more | P |
| And why lovely Clwyd's attractions are o'er | Q |
| Ah have you not heard then the cause of my pain | R |
| The pride of fair Clwyd the boast of the plain | R |
| We never no never shall gaze on again | S |
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| What though from her coldness keen anguish I felt | C |
| And vainly to move her in agony knelt | C |
| Yet could I restore her I'd never complain | R |
| Not e'en though she doomed me to endless disdain | R |
| I'd bear any torture to see her again | S |
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| I grieved when on others with kindness she gazed | C |
| I mourned when another with pleasure she praised | C |
| But could I recall her to life by my pain | R |
| I'd urge her to favour some happier swain | R |
| And wish no reward but to see her again | S |
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| Those beauties that charmed me from death I would free | F |
| Though sure that those beauties another's should be | F |
| But truth and affection and grief are all vain | R |
| The pride of fair Clwyd the boast of our plain | R |
| We never ah never can gaze on again | S |
Amelia Opie
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