The Wood-nymph Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIHBJKCLBMNOP QRSTNNUUNENVNNGMCWXC YCZA2MZRB2| After a picture by Burne Jones | A |
| The green leaves ah the green leaves cover me | B |
| Would I might lose this unloved human life | C |
| And share the happy being of the leaves | D |
| For lo they live and grow and drink the sun | E |
| And sip the nectar of the heavenly showers | F |
| And have no sorrow with it but they grow | G |
| Happily and Pan at even blesses them | H |
| While I alas me hapless I am joined | I |
| Part to their life and all in longing to them | H |
| Part to the gods the bright gods whom I see | B |
| Flash through the woods at even or morn and make | J |
| The beautiful familiar trees seem strange | K |
| And part to mortals and their little life | C |
| Green leaves that cover me to you I mourn | L |
| My sisters my more happy sisters ye | B |
| Rustle rustle in the summer air | M |
| With happy cries of birds among your boughs | N |
| Be happy though I am not happy Nay | O |
| I am not all unhappy evermore | P |
| One while a bird sings on the topmost bough | Q |
| And my heart sings forgetting life and death | R |
| And sorrow so forgetting I were blest | S |
| And bliss the gods deny me When they walk | T |
| The forest before sundawn Artemis | N |
| Girt for the chase and followed by her hounds | N |
| Queen Her or another ere the dawn | U |
| Or Aphrodite with the rosy dawn | U |
| I may not speak my longings but they pass | N |
| Pass unregardful to their happy heaven | E |
| They see me not not me akin to Gods | N |
| These tears are vain When mortals pass at eve | V |
| Treading a delicate path between the trees | N |
| Pale mortal men and women with their loves | N |
| It pains me that I see them for I know | G |
| I am not as they are and cannot share | M |
| The little love that fills their little life | C |
| Vain vain and they too pass and see me not | W |
| Ah me dear leaves forsaken of gods and men | X |
| And sad because I cannot live their life | C |
| Will you not love me whom none others love | Y |
| Will you not teach me how to live your life | C |
| My sisters my more happy sisters live | Z |
| In peace and quietness and still content | A2 |
| And freshen and fade and freshen and have no care | M |
| And have no longing full of peace to live | Z |
| Forgetting thus for ever life and death | R |
| And Gods and men and sorrow and delight | B2 |
Arthur Symons
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