Isabel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBCC DEDEEFE F GHGHHBHBB ICIBBJB K| Now o'er the landscape crowd the deepening shades | A |
| And the shut lily cradles not the bee | B |
| The red deer couches in the forest glades | A |
| And faint the echoes of the slumberous sea | B |
| And ere I rest one prayer I'll breathe for thee | B |
| The sweet Egeria of my lonely dreams | C |
| Lady forgive that ever upon me | B |
| Thoughts of thee linger as the soft starbeams | C |
| Linger on Merlin's rock or dark Sabrina's streams | C |
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| On gray Pilatus once we loved to stray | D |
| And watch far off the glimmering roselight break | E |
| O'er the dim mountain peaks ere yet one ray | D |
| Pierced the deep bosom of the mist clad lake | E |
| Oh who felt not new life within him wake | E |
| And his pulse quicken and his spirit burn | F |
| Save one we wot of whom the cold DID make | E |
| Feel 'shooting pains in every joint in turn ' | - |
| When first he saw the sun gild thy green shores Lucerne | F |
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| And years have past and I have gazed once more | G |
| On blue lakes glistening beneath mountains blue | H |
| And all seemed sadder lovelier than before | G |
| For all awakened memories of you | H |
| Oh had I had you by my side in lieu | H |
| Of that red matron whom the flies would worry | B |
| Flies in those parts unfortunately do | H |
| Who walked so slowly talked in such a hurry | B |
| And with such wild contempt for stops and Lindley Murray | B |
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| O Isabel the brightest heavenliest theme | I |
| That ere drew dreamer on to poesy | C |
| Since 'Peggy's locks' made Burns neglect his team | I |
| And Stella's smile lured Johnson from his tea | B |
| I may not tell thee what thou art to me | B |
| But ever dwells the soft voice in my ear | J |
| Whispering of what Time is what Man might be | B |
| Would he but 'do the duty that lies near ' | - |
| And cut clubs cards champagne balls billiard rooms and beer | K |
Charles Stuart Calverley
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