Leonora Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCAC ADEEFFDAD AGGHDDHIIAH AEEGGJJGGGKKDDLLGMMA G ADKKDGGKNNKDODODDGDD IPAG| LEONORA Leonora | A |
| How the word rolls Leonora | A |
| Lion like in full mouthed sound | B |
| Marching o'er the metric ground | B |
| With a tawny tread sublime | C |
| So your name moves Leonora | A |
| Down my desert rhyme | C |
| - | |
| So you pace young Leonora | A |
| Through the alleys of the wood | D |
| Head erect majestic tall | E |
| The fit daughter of the Hall | E |
| Yet with hazel eyes declined | F |
| And a voice like summer wind | F |
| And a meek mouth sweet and good | D |
| Dimpling ever Leonora | A |
| In fair womanhood | D |
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| How those smiles dance Leonora | A |
| As you meet the pleasant breeze | G |
| Under your ancestral trees | G |
| For your heart is free and pure | H |
| As this blue March sky o'erhead | D |
| And in the life path you tread | D |
| All the leaves are budding sure | H |
| All the primroses are springing | I |
| All the birds begin their singing | I |
| 'T is your spring time Leonora | A |
| May it long endure | H |
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| But it will pass Leonora | A |
| And the silent days must fall | E |
| When a change comes over all | E |
| When the last leaf downward flitters | G |
| And the last last sunbeam glitters | G |
| On the terraced hillside cool | J |
| On the peacocks by the pool | J |
| When you'll walk along these alleys | G |
| With no lightsome foot that dallies | G |
| With the violets and the moss | G |
| But with quiet steps and slow | K |
| And grave eyes that earthward grow | K |
| And a matron heart inured | D |
| To all women have endured | D |
| Must endure and ever will | L |
| All the joy and all the ill | L |
| All the gain and all the loss | G |
| Can you cheerfully lay down | M |
| Careless girlhood's flowery crown | M |
| And thus take up Leonora | A |
| Womanhood's meek cross | G |
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| Ay your eyes shine Leonora | A |
| Warm and true and brave and kind | D |
| And although I nothing know | K |
| Of the maiden heart below | K |
| I in them good omens find | D |
| Go enjoy your present hours | G |
| Like the birds and bees and flowers | G |
| And may summer days bestow | K |
| On you just so much of rain | N |
| Blessed baptism of pain | N |
| As will make your blossoms grow | K |
| May you walk as through life's road | D |
| Every noble woman can | O |
| With a pure heart before God | D |
| And a true heart unto man | O |
| Till with this same smile you wait | D |
| For the opening of the Gate | D |
| That shuts earth from mortal eyes | G |
| Till at last with peaceful heart | D |
| All contented to depart | D |
| Leaving children's children playing | I |
| In these woods you used to stray in | P |
| You may enter Leonora | A |
| Into Paradise | G |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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