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 YBYB

Once long ago before the godsA
Had left this earth by stream and forest gladeB
Where the first plough upturned the clinging sodsA
Or the lost shepherd strayedB
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Often to the tired listener's earC
There came at noonday or beneath the starsA
A sound he knew not whence so sweet and clearD
That all his aches and scarsA
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And every brooded bitternessA
Fallen asunder from his soul took flightE
Like mist or darkness yielding to the pressA
Of an unnamed delightE
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A sudden brightness of the heartF
A magic fire drawn down from ParadiseA
That rent the cloud with golden gleam apartF
And far before his eyesA
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The loveliness and calm of earthG
Lay like a limitless dream remote and strangeH
The joy the strife the triumph and the mirthG
And the enchanted changeH
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And so he followed the sweet soundI
Till faith had traversed her appointed spanJ
And murmured as he pressed the sacred groundI
It is the note of PanJ
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Now though no more by marsh or streamK
Or dewy forest sounds the secret reedL
For Pan is gone Ah yet the infinite dreamK
Still lives for them that heedL
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In April when the turning yearD
Regains its pensive youth and a soft breathM
And amorous influence over marsh and mereD
Dissolves the grasp of deathM
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To them that are in love with lifeN
Wandering like children with untroubled eyesA
Far from the noise of cities and the strifeN
Strange flute like voices riseA
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At noon and in the quiet of the nightE
From every watery waste and in that hourO
The same strange spell the same unnamed delightE
Enfolds them in its powerO
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An old world joyousness supremeK
The warmth and glow of an immortal balmP
The mood touch of the gods the endless dreamK
The high lethean calmP
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They see wide on the eternal wayQ
The services of earth the life of manJ
And listening to the magic cry they sayQ
It is the note of PanJ
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For long ago when the new strainsA
Of hostile hymns and conquering faiths grew keenR
And the old gods from their deserted fanesA
Fled silent and unseenR
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So too the goat foot Pan not lessA
Sadly obedient to the mightier handS
Cut him new reeds and in a sore distressA
Passed out from land to landS
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And lingering by each haunt he knewT
Of fount or sinuous stream or grassy margeU
He set the syrinx to his lips and blewT
A note divinely largeU
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And all around him on the wetV
Cool earth the frogs came up and with a smileW
He took them in his hairy hands and setV
His mouth to theirs awhileW
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And blew into their velvet throatsA
And ever from that hour the frogs repeatX
The murmur of Pan's pipes the notesA
And answers strange and sweetX
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And they that hear them are renewedY
By knowledge in some god like touch conveyedB
Entering again into the eternal moodY
Wherein the world was madeB

Archibald Lampman



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