Pan Liveth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABABCC DEDEDECC CFCFCFCC EEEEEECC GHGHGHCC IJIJIJCCThey 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 |
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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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