The Thankless Lady Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IFIF JKJK LHLH CACA| It is May and the moon leans down at night | A |
| Over a blossomy land | B |
| Leans from her window a lady white | A |
| With her cheek upon her hand | B |
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| Oh why in the blue so misty moon | C |
| Why so dull in the sky | D |
| Thou look'st like one that is ready to swoon | C |
| Because her tear well is dry | D |
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| Enough enough of longing and wail | E |
| Oh bird I pray thee be glad | F |
| Sing to me once dear nightingale | E |
| The old song merry mad | F |
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| Hold hold with thy blossoming colourless cold | G |
| Apple tree white as woe | H |
| Blossom yet once with the blossom of old | G |
| Let the roses shine through the snow | H |
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| The moon and the blossoms they gloomily gleam | I |
| The bird will not be glad | F |
| The dead never speak when the mournful dream | I |
| They are too weak and sad | F |
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| Listened she listless till night grew late | J |
| Bound by a weary spell | K |
| Then clanked the latch of the garden gate | J |
| And a wondrous thing befell | K |
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| Out burst the gladness up dawned the love | L |
| In the song in the waiting show | H |
| Grew silver the moon in the sky above | L |
| Blushed rosy the blossom below | H |
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| But the merry bird nor the silvery moon | C |
| Nor the blossoms that flushed the night | A |
| Had one poor thanks for the granted boon | C |
| The lady forgot them quite | A |
George Macdonald
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