On An Air Of Rameau Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBB CDDC EFFE| A melancholy desire of ancient things | A |
| Floats like a faded perfume out of the wires | B |
| Pallid lovers what unforgotten desires | B |
| Whispered once are retold in your whisperings | B |
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| Roses roses and lilies with hearts of gold | C |
| These you plucked for her these she wore in her breast | D |
| Only Rameau's music remembers the rest | D |
| The death of roses over a heart grown cold | C |
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| But these sighs Can ghosts then sigh from the tomb | E |
| Life then wept for you sighed for you chilled your breath | F |
| It is the melancholy of ancient death | F |
| The harpsichord dreams of sighing in the room | E |
Arthur Symons
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