Favorites Of Pan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CADA AEAE FAFA GHGH IJIJ KLKL DMDM NANA EOEO KPKP QJQJ ARAR ASAS TUTU VWVW AXAX YBYBOnce long ago before the gods | A |
Had left this earth by stream and forest glade | B |
Where the first plough upturned the clinging sods | A |
Or the lost shepherd strayed | B |
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Often to the tired listener's ear | C |
There came at noonday or beneath the stars | A |
A sound he knew not whence so sweet and clear | D |
That all his aches and scars | A |
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And every brooded bitterness | A |
Fallen asunder from his soul took flight | E |
Like mist or darkness yielding to the press | A |
Of an unnamed delight | E |
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A sudden brightness of the heart | F |
A magic fire drawn down from Paradise | A |
That rent the cloud with golden gleam apart | F |
And far before his eyes | A |
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The loveliness and calm of earth | G |
Lay like a limitless dream remote and strange | H |
The joy the strife the triumph and the mirth | G |
And the enchanted change | H |
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And so he followed the sweet sound | I |
Till faith had traversed her appointed span | J |
And murmured as he pressed the sacred ground | I |
It is the note of Pan | J |
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Now though no more by marsh or stream | K |
Or dewy forest sounds the secret reed | L |
For Pan is gone Ah yet the infinite dream | K |
Still lives for them that heed | L |
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In April when the turning year | D |
Regains its pensive youth and a soft breath | M |
And amorous influence over marsh and mere | D |
Dissolves the grasp of death | M |
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To them that are in love with life | N |
Wandering like children with untroubled eyes | A |
Far from the noise of cities and the strife | N |
Strange flute like voices rise | A |
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At noon and in the quiet of the night | E |
From every watery waste and in that hour | O |
The same strange spell the same unnamed delight | E |
Enfolds them in its power | O |
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An old world joyousness supreme | K |
The warmth and glow of an immortal balm | P |
The mood touch of the gods the endless dream | K |
The high lethean calm | P |
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They see wide on the eternal way | Q |
The services of earth the life of man | J |
And listening to the magic cry they say | Q |
It is the note of Pan | J |
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For long ago when the new strains | A |
Of hostile hymns and conquering faiths grew keen | R |
And the old gods from their deserted fanes | A |
Fled silent and unseen | R |
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So too the goat foot Pan not less | A |
Sadly obedient to the mightier hand | S |
Cut him new reeds and in a sore distress | A |
Passed out from land to land | S |
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And lingering by each haunt he knew | T |
Of fount or sinuous stream or grassy marge | U |
He set the syrinx to his lips and blew | T |
A note divinely large | U |
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And all around him on the wet | V |
Cool earth the frogs came up and with a smile | W |
He took them in his hairy hands and set | V |
His mouth to theirs awhile | W |
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And blew into their velvet throats | A |
And ever from that hour the frogs repeat | X |
The murmur of Pan's pipes the notes | A |
And answers strange and sweet | X |
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And they that hear them are renewed | Y |
By knowledge in some god like touch conveyed | B |
Entering again into the eternal mood | Y |
Wherein the world was made | B |
Archibald Lampman
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