Water Fantasy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB AA CC DDEEFFDDGGDDEEHHGGII JJIIAAKKAA GGLLAA| O brown brook O blithe brook what will you say to me | A |
| If I take off my heavy shoon and wade you childishly | B |
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| O take them off and come to me | A |
| You shall not fall Step merrily | A |
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| But cool brook but quick brook and what if I should float | C |
| White bodied in your pleasant pool your bubbles at my throat | C |
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| If you are but a mortal maid | D |
| Then I shall make you half afraid | D |
| The water shall be dim and deep | E |
| And silver fish shall lunge and leap | E |
| About you coward mortal thing | F |
| But if you come desiring | F |
| To win once more your naiadhood | D |
| How you shall laugh and find me good | D |
| My golden surfaces my glooms | G |
| My secret grottoes' dripping rooms | G |
| My depths of warm wet emerald | D |
| My mosses floating fold on fold | D |
| And where I take the rocky leap | E |
| Like wild white water shall you sweep | E |
| Like wild white water shall you cry | H |
| Trembling and turning to the sky | H |
| While all the thousand fring egrave d trees | G |
| Glimmer and glisten through the breeze | G |
| I bid you come Too long too long | I |
| You have forgot my undersong | I |
| And this perchance you never knew | J |
| E'en I the brook have need of you | J |
| My naiads faded long ago | I |
| My little nymphs that to and fro | I |
| Within my waters sunnily | A |
| Made small white flames of tinkling glee | A |
| I have been lonesome lonesome yea | K |
| E'en I the brook until this day | K |
| Cast off your shoon ah come to me | A |
| And I will love you lingeringly | A |
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| O wild brook O wise brook I cannot come alas | G |
| I am but mortal as the leaves that flicker float and pass | G |
| My body is not used to you my breath is fluttering sore | L |
| You clasp me round too icily Ah let me go once more | L |
| Would God I were a naiad thing whereon Pan's music blew | A |
| But woe is me you pagan brook I cannot stay with you | A |
Fannie Stearns Davis
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