The King And The Siren Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EAEAFGFG HBHBIGIG AAAAJKJK ALALMNMN AOAOPAPA| The harsh King Winter sat upon the hills | A |
| And reigned and ruled the earth right royally | B |
| He locked the rivers lakes and all the rills | A |
| I am no puny maudlin king quoth he | B |
| But a stern monarch born to rule and reign | C |
| And I'll show my power to the end | D |
| The summer's flowery retinue I've slain | C |
| And taken the bold free North Wind for my friend | D |
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| Spring Summer Autumn feeble queens they were | E |
| With their vast troops of flowers birds and bees | A |
| Soft winds that made the long green grasses stir | E |
| They lost their own identity in things like these | A |
| I scorn them all nay I defy them all | F |
| And none can wrest the sceptre from my hand | G |
| The trusty North Wind answers to my call | F |
| And breathes this icy breath upon the land | G |
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| The Siren South Wind listening the while | H |
| Now floated airily across the lea | B |
| Oh King she cried with tender tone and smile | H |
| I come to do all homage unto thee | B |
| In all the sunny region whence I came | I |
| I find none like thee King so brave and grand | G |
| Thine is a well deserved unrivaled fame | I |
| I kiss in awe dear King thy cold white hand | G |
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| Her words were pleasing and most fair her face | A |
| He listened wrapt to her soft whispered praise | A |
| She nestled nearer in her Siren grace | A |
| Dear King she said henceforth my voice shall raise | A |
| But songs of thy unrivaled splendor Lo | J |
| How white thy brow is How thy garments shine | K |
| I tremble 'neath thy beaming glance for Oh | J |
| Thy wondrous beauty mak'st thee seem divine | K |
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| The rain King listened in a trance of bliss | A |
| To this most sweet voiced Siren from the South | L |
| She nestled close and pressed a lingering kiss | A |
| Upon the stern white pallor of his mouth | L |
| She hung upon his breast she pressed his cheek | M |
| And he was nothing loth to hold her there | N |
| While she such tender loving words did speak | M |
| And combed his white locks with her fingers fair | N |
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| And so she bound him in her Siren wiles | A |
| And stole his strength with every kiss she gave | O |
| And stabbed him through and through with tender smiles | A |
| And with her tender words she dug his grave | O |
| And then she left him old and weak and blind | P |
| And unlocked all the rivers lakes and rills | A |
| While the queen Spring with her whole troop behind | P |
| Of flowers and birds and bees came o'er the hills | A |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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