Pan Liveth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABABCC DEDEDECC CFCFCFCC EEEEEECC GHGHGHCC IJIJIJCC| They told me once that Pan was dead | A |
| And so in sooth I thought him | B |
| For vainly where the streamlets led | A |
| Through flowery meads I sought him | B |
| Nor in his dewy pasture bed | A |
| Nor in the grove I caught him | B |
| Tell me 'twas so my clamor ran | C |
| Tell me oh where is Pan | C |
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| But once as on my pipe I played | D |
| A requiem sad and tender | E |
| Lo thither came a shepherd maid | D |
| Full comely she and slender | E |
| I were indeed a churlish blade | D |
| With wailings to offend 'er | E |
| For surely wooing's sweeter than | C |
| A mourning over Pan | C |
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| So presently whiles I did scan | C |
| That shepherd maiden pretty | F |
| And heard her accents I began | C |
| To pipe a cheerful ditty | F |
| And so betimes forgot old Pan | C |
| Whose death had waked my pity | F |
| So so did Love undo the man | C |
| Who sought and pined for Pan | C |
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| He was not dead I found him there | E |
| The Pan that I was after | E |
| Caught in that maiden's tangling hair | E |
| Drunk with her song and laughter | E |
| I doubt if there be otherwhere | E |
| A merrier god or dafter | E |
| Nay nor a mortal kindlier than | C |
| Is this same dear old Pan | C |
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| Beside me as my pipe I play | G |
| My shepherdess is lying | H |
| While here and there her lambkins stray | G |
| As sunny hours go flying | H |
| They look like me those lambs they say | G |
| And that I'm not denying | H |
| And for that sturdy romping clan | C |
| All glory be to Pan | C |
| - | |
| Pan is not dead O sweetheart mine | I |
| It is to hear his voices | J |
| In every note and every line | I |
| Wherein the heart rejoices | J |
| He liveth in that sacred shrine | I |
| That Love's first holiest choice is | J |
| So pipe my pipe while still you can | C |
| Sweet songs in praise of Pan | C |
Eugene Field
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