Undines Of Diverse Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCD CCCE FFFG HHHE A IJIA KKKL AAAM NNNL CCCD| I | A |
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| The eyes of heaven were on her bent | B |
| In a rapture of loving wonderment | C |
| As her song with the nightingale's was blent | C |
| And one yearn'd for a love and one sigh'd for a soul | D |
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| Moonlight and starlight alike seemed cold | C |
| As their silver glanced on her locks of gold | C |
| And the dream on her face was a dream of old | C |
| Whose sorrow no sunrise might smile away | E |
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| I read her yearning and weary smile | F |
| As her song rang sadder and sadder the while | F |
| With its weird refrain of a magic isle | F |
| Where some might have rest but never might she | G |
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| She the darling of Sky and Stream | H |
| She was but as wind or as wave or as dream | H |
| To play for a while in life's glory and gleam | H |
| But what would be left at the end of the day | E |
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| II | A |
| - | |
| The sun smiles down upon her distress | I |
| With a tyrant smile most pitiless | J |
| As she stitches away in her tatter'd dress | I |
| With a song on her lips that sinks in a sigh | A |
| - | |
| Yet scorning her dusty window pane | K |
| For all his pride in love he is fain | K |
| Soft gold on her golden hair to rain | K |
| But no sunlight may soften that soulless stare | L |
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| I read her yearning and weary sigh | A |
| And the eyes that would be but are not dry | A |
| And I catch the voice of that voiceless cry | A |
| For a moment to rest for a moment to weep | M |
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| She the darling of Want and Woe | N |
| Why was she sent save to work and to go | N |
| With feet that will ever more weary grow | N |
| Whither she has not a moment to care | L |
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| The Undine of olden days I read | C |
| By the love of a soul from her trammels was freed | C |
| Knows there another such dolorous need | C |
| Sure on the earth lingers yet such a soul | D |
Arthur Shearly Cripps
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