To Carmen Sylva Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDE FFBBGGBB HHIIJJKK LCMMNNOO PPQQRRQQ SSTTUUDD VVWWQQXX VVBBYYZZ| Oh that the golden lyre divine | A |
| Whence David smote flame tones were mine | A |
| Oh that the silent harp which hung | B |
| Untuned unstrung | B |
| Upon the willows by the river | C |
| Would throb beneath my touch and quiver | C |
| With the old song enchanted spell | D |
| Of Israel | E |
| - | |
| Oh that the large prophetic Voice | F |
| Would make my reed piped throat its choice | F |
| All ears should prick all hearts should spring | B |
| To hear me sing | B |
| The burden of the isles the word | G |
| Assyria knew Damascus heard | G |
| When like the wind while cedars shake | B |
| Isaiah spake | B |
| - | |
| For I would frame a song to day | H |
| Winged like a bird to cleave its way | H |
| O'er land and sea that spread between | I |
| To where a Queen | I |
| Sits with a triple coronet | J |
| Genius and Sorrow both have set | J |
| Their diadems above the gold | K |
| A Queen three fold | K |
| - | |
| To her the forest lent its lyre | L |
| Hers are the sylvan dews the fire | C |
| Of Orient suns the mist wreathed gleams | M |
| Of mountain streams | M |
| She the imperial Rhine's own child | N |
| Takes to her heart the wood nymph wild | N |
| The gypsy Pelech and the wide | O |
| White Danube's tide | O |
| - | |
| She who beside an infant's bier | P |
| Long since resigned all hope to hear | P |
| The sacred name of Mother bless | Q |
| Her childlessness | Q |
| Now from a people's sole acclaim | R |
| Receives the heart vibrating name | R |
| And Mother Mother Mother fills | Q |
| The echoing hills | Q |
| - | |
| Yet who is he who pines apart | S |
| Estranged from that maternal heart | S |
| Ungraced unfriended and forlorn | T |
| The butt of scorn | T |
| An alien in his land of birth | U |
| An outcast from his brethren's earth | U |
| Albeit with theirs his blood mixed well | D |
| When Plevna fell | D |
| - | |
| When all Roumania's chains were riven | V |
| When unto all his sons was given | V |
| The hero's glorious reward | W |
| Reaped by the sword | W |
| Wherefore was this poor thrall whose chains | Q |
| Hung heaviest within whose veins | Q |
| The oldest blood of freedom streamed | X |
| Still unredeemed | X |
| - | |
| O Mother Poet Queen in one | V |
| Pity and save he is thy son | V |
| For poet David's sake the king | B |
| Of all who sing | B |
| For thine own people's sake who share | Y |
| His law his truth his praise his prayer | Y |
| For his sake who was sacrificed | Z |
| His brother Christ | Z |
Emma Lazarus
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