The Song Of Pan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF ABAB GHIJ KLKL| Mad with love and laden | A |
| With immortal pain | B |
| Pan pursued a maiden | A |
| Pan the god in vain | B |
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| For when Pan had nearly | C |
| Touched her wild to plead | D |
| She was gone and clearly | C |
| In her place a reed | D |
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| Long the god unwitting | E |
| Through the valley strayed | F |
| Then at last submitting | E |
| Cut the reed and made | F |
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| Deftly fashioned seven | A |
| Pipes and poured his pain | B |
| Unto earth and heaven | A |
| In a piercing strain | B |
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| So with god and poet | G |
| Beauty lures them on | H |
| Flies and ere they know it | I |
| Like a wraith is gone | J |
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| Then they seek to borrow | K |
| Pleasure still from wrong | L |
| And with smiling sorrow | K |
| Turn it to a song | L |
Archibald Lampman
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