The Beautiful Blue Danube Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAC DEFEAGAG HIHIAJAJ AKAKLMLM NONOHPHP| They drift down the hall together | A |
| He smiles in her lifted eyes | B |
| Like waves of that mighty river | A |
| The strains of the Danube rise | B |
| They float on its rhythmic measure | A |
| Like leaves on a summer stream | C |
| And here in this scene of pleasure | A |
| I bury my sweet dead dream | C |
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| Through the cloud of her dusky tresses | D |
| Like a star shines out her face | E |
| And the form of his strong arm presses | F |
| Is sylph like in its grace | E |
| As a leaf on the bounding river | A |
| Is lost in the seething sea | G |
| I know that for ever and ever | A |
| My dream is lost to me | G |
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| And still the viols are playing | H |
| That grand old wordless rhyme | I |
| And still those two are swaying | H |
| In perfect tune and time | I |
| If the great bassoons that mutter | A |
| If the clarinets that blow | J |
| Were given the chance to utter | A |
| The secret things they know | J |
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| Would the lists of the slain who slumber | A |
| On the Danube s battle plains | K |
| The unknown hosts outnumber | A |
| Who die neath the Danube s strains | K |
| Those fall where the cannons rattle | L |
| Mid the rain of shot and shell | M |
| But these in a fiercer battle | L |
| Find death in the music s swell | M |
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| With the river s roar of passion | N |
| Is blended the dying groan | O |
| But here in the halls of fashion | N |
| Hearts break and make no moan | O |
| And the music swelling and sweeping | H |
| Like the river knows it all | P |
| But none are counting or keeping | H |
| The lists of those who fall | P |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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