The Moon's Minion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGCG HIHIGCGC| Thine eyes are like the sea my dear | A |
| The wand'ring waters green and grey | B |
| Thine eyes are wonderful and clear | A |
| And deep and deadly even as they | B |
| The spirit of the changeful sea | C |
| Informs thine eyes at night and noon | D |
| She sways the tides and the heart of thee | C |
| The mystic sad capricious Moon | D |
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| The Moon came down the shining stair | E |
| Of clouds that fleck the summer sky | F |
| She kissed thee saying 'Child be fair | E |
| And madden men's hearts even as I | F |
| Thou shalt love all things strange and sweet | G |
| That know me and are known of me | C |
| The lover thou shalt never meet | G |
| The land where thou shalt never be ' | - |
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| She held thee in her chill embrace | H |
| She kissed thee with cold lips divine | I |
| She left her pallor on thy face | H |
| That mystic ivory face of thine | I |
| And now I sit beside thy feet | G |
| And all my heart is far from thee | C |
| Dreaming of her I shall not meet | G |
| And of the land I shall not see | C |
Andrew Lang
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