The May Night Poem Rhyme Scheme

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The May Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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MUSE	A
Give me a kiss my poet take thy lyre	B
The buds are bursting on the wild sweet briar	C
To night the Spring is born the breeze takes fire	C
Expectant of the dawn behold the thrush	D
Perched on the fresh branch of the first green bush	E
Give me a kiss my poet take thy lyre	B
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POET	F
How black it looks within the vale	G
I thought a muffled form did sail	G
Above the tree tops through the air	H
It seemed from yonder field to pass	I
Its foot just grazed the tender grass	I
A vision strange and fair it was	J
It melts and is no longer there	H
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MUSE	A
My poet take thy lyre upon the lawn	K
Night rocks the zephyr on her veiled soft breast	L
The rose still virgin holds herself withdrawn	K
From the winged irised wasp with love possessed	L
Hark all is hushed Now of thy sweetheart dream	M
To day the sunset with a lingering beam	M
Caressed the dusky foliaged linden grove	N
All things shall bloom to night great Nature thrills	O
Her couch with perfume passion sighs she fills	O
Like to the nuptial bed of youthful love	P
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POET	F
Why throbs my heart so fast so low	Q
What sets my seething blood aglow	Q
And fills my sense with vague affright	F
Who raps upon my chamber door	R
My lamp's spent ray upon the floor	R
Why does it dazzle me with light	F
Great God my limbs sink under me	S
Who enters who is calling none	T
The clock strikes I am all alone	U
O solitude O poverty	S
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MUSE	A
My poet take thy lyre Youth's living wine	V
Ferments to night within the veins divine	V
My breast is troubled stifling with desire	C
The panting breeze has set my lips afire	B
O listless child behold me I am fair	H
Our first embrace dost thou so soon forget	F
How pale thou wast when my wing grazed thy hair	H
Into mine arms thou fell'st with eyelids wet	F
Oh in thy bitter grief I solaced thee	S
Dying of love thy youthful strength outworn	V
Now I shall die of hope oh comfort me	S
I need thy prayers to live until the morn	V
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POET	F
Is it thy voice my spirit knows	W
O darling Muse And canst thou be	S
My own immortal one my rose	W
Sole pure and faithful heart where glows	W
A lingering spark of love for me	S
Yes it is thou with tresses bright	F
'T is thou my sister and my bride	F
I feel amidst the shadowy night	F
From thy gold gown the rays of light	F
Within my heart's recesses glide	F
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MUSE	A
My poet take thy lyre 'T is I undying	X
Who seeing thee to night so sad and dumb	Y
Like to the mother bird whose brood is crying	X
From utmost heaven to weep with thee have come	Y
My friend thou sufferest a secret woe	Q
Gnaws at thy life thou sighest in the night	F
Love visits thee such love as mortals know	Q
Shadow of gladness semblance of delight	F
Rise sing to God the thoughts that fill thy brain	V
Thy buried pleasures and thy long past pain	V
Come with a kiss where unknown regions gleam	M
Awake the mingling echoes of thy days	Z
Sing of thy folly glory joy and praise	Z
Be all an unpremeditated dream	M
Let us invent a realm where one forgets	A2
Come we are all alone the world is ours	B2
Green Scotland tawny Italy offsets	A2
Lo Greece my mother with her honeyed flowers	B2
Argos and Pteleon with its shrines and groves	C2
Celestial Messa populous with doves	D2
And Pelion with his shaggy changing brow	E2
Blue Titaresus and the gulf of steel	F2
Whose waves that glass the floating swan reveal	F2
Snowy Camyre to Oloossone's snow	Q
Tell me what golden dreams shall charm our sleep	G2
Whence shall be drawn the tears that we shall weep	G2
This morning when thy lids were touched with light	F
What pensive seraph bending kindly near	H2
Dropped lilacs from his airy robe of white	F
And whispered beams of love within thine ear	I2
Say shall we sing of sadness joy or hope	J2
Or bathe in blood the settled steel clad ranks	K2
See lovers mount the ladder's silken rope	J2
Or fleck the wind with coursers' foaming flanks	K2
Or shall we tell whose hand the lamps above	P
In the celestial mansions year by year	H2
Kindles with sacred oil of life and love	P
With Tarquin shall we cry Come night is here	I2
Or shall we dive for pearls beneath the seas	L2
Or find the wild goats by the alpine trees	L2
Bid melancholy gaze upon the skies	M2
Follow the huntsman on the upland lawns	N2
The roe uplifts her tearful suppliant eyes	M2
Her heath awaits her and her suckling fawns	M2
He stoops he slaughters her he flings her heart	F
Still warm amidst his panting hounds apart	F
Or shall we paint a maid with vermeil cheek	O2
Who with her page behind to vespers fares	M2
Beside her mother dreamy eyed and meek	O2
And on her half oped lips forgets her prayers	M2
Trembles midst echoing columns hearkening	O2
To hear her bold knight's clanging spurs outring	O2
Or shall we bid the heroes of old France	M2
Scale full equipped the battlemented wall	P2
And so revive the simple strained romance	M2
Their fame inspired our troubadours withal	P2
Or shall we clothe soft elegies in white	F
Or bid the man of Waterloo recite	F
His story and the crop mown by his art	F
Or ere the herald of eternal night	F
On his green mound with fatal wing did smite	F
And cross his hands above his iron heart	F
Or shall we gibbet on some satire here	I2
The name thrice bought of some pale pamphleteer	H2
Who hunger goaded from his haunts obscure	Q2
Dared quivering with impotence and spite	F
Insult the hope on Genius' brow of light	F
And gnaw the wreath his breath had made impure	Q2
The lyre the lyre I can be still no more	R
Upon the breath of spring my pinions fly	P2
The air supports me from the earth I soar	R
Thou weepest God has heard the hour is nigh	P2
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POET	F
Dear sister if thou ask but this	M2
From friendly lips a gentle kiss	M2
Or one soft tear from kindly eyes	M2
These will I gladly give to thee	S
Our love remember tenderly	S
If thou remountest to the skies	M2
No longer I of hope shall sing	O2
Of fame or joy of love or art	F
Alas not even of suffering	O2
My lips are locked I lean and cling	O2
To hear the whisper of my heart	F
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MUSE	M2
What am I like the autumn breeze for you	R2
Which feeds on tears even to the very grave	S2
For whom all grief is but a drop of dew	R2
O poet but one kiss 't was I who gave	S2
The weed I fain would root from out this sod	F
Is thine own sloth thy grief belongs to God	F
Whatever sorrow thy young heart have found	F
Open it well this ever sacred wound	F
Dealt by dark angels give thy soul relief	T2
Naught makes us nobler than a noble grief	T2
Yet deem not poet though this pain have come	Y
That therefore here below thou mayst be dumb	Y
Best are the songs most desperate in their woe	Q
Immortal ones which are pure sobs I know	Q
When the wave weary pelican once more	R
Midst evening vapors gains his nest of reeds	M2
His famished brood run forward on the shore	R
To see where high above the surge he speeds	M2
As though even now their prey they could destroy	U2
They hasten to their sire with screams of joy	U2
On swollen necks wagging their beaks they cry	P2
He slowly wins at last a lofty rock	O2
Shelters beneath his drooping wing his flock	O2
And a sad fisher gazes on the sky	P2
Adown his open breast the blood flows there	H
Vainly he searched the ocean's deepest part	F
The sea was empty and the shore was bare	H
And for all nourishment he brings his heart	F
Sad silent on the stone he gives his brood	F
His father entrails and his father blood	F
Lulls with his love sublime his cruel pain	V
And watching on his breast the ruddy stain	V
Swoons at the fatal banquet from excess	M2
Of horror and voluptuous tenderness	M2
Sudden amidst the sacrifice divine	V
Outworn with such protracted suffering	O2
He fears his flock may let him live and pine	V
Then up he starts expands his mighty wing	O2
Beating his heart and with a savage cry	P2
Bids a farewell of such funereal tone	V
That the scared seabirds from their rock nests fly	P2
And the late traveller on the beach alone	V
Commends his soul to God for death floats by	P2
Even such O poet is the poet's fate	F
His life sustains the creatures of a day	F
The banquets served upon his feasts of state	F
Are like the pelican's sublime as they	F
And when he tells the world of hopes betrayed	F
Forgetfulness and grief of love and hate	F
His music does not make the heart dilate	F
His eloquence is as an unsheathed blade	F
Tracing a glittering circle in mid air	H
While blood drips from the edges keen and bare	H
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POET	F
O Muse insatiate soul demand	F
No more than lies in human power	C
Man writes no word upon the sand	F
Even at the furious whirlwind's hour	C
There was a time when joyous youth	V2
Forever fluttered at my mouth	W2
A merry singing bird just freed	F
Strange martyrdom has since been mine	V
Should I revive its slightest sign	V
At the first note my lyre and thine	V
Would snap asunder like a reed	F