The Lily-pond Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGI JKLK MNMN OPOP QRQR STST UVUW XYXY JKLK| Some fairy spirit with his wand | A |
| I think has hovered o'er the dell | B |
| And spread this film upon the pond | A |
| And touched it with this drowsy spell | B |
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| For here the musing soul is merged | C |
| In moods no other scene can bring | D |
| And sweeter seems the air when scourged | C |
| With wandering wild bees' murmuring | D |
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| One ripple streaks the little lake | E |
| Sharp purple blue the birches thin | F |
| And silvery crowd the edge yet break | E |
| To let a straying sunbeam in | F |
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| How came we through the yielding wood | G |
| That day to this sweet rustling shore | H |
| Oh there together while we stood | G |
| A butterfly was wafted o'er | I |
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| In sleepy light and even now | J |
| His glimmering beauty doth return | K |
| Upon me when the soft winds blow | L |
| And lilies toward the sunlight yearn | K |
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| The yielding wood And yet 't was both | M |
| To yield unto our happy march | N |
| Doubtful it seemed at times if both | M |
| Could pass its green elastic arch | N |
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| Yet there at last upon the marge | O |
| We found ourselves and there behold | P |
| In hosts the lilies white and large | O |
| Lay close with hearts of downy gold | P |
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| Deep in the weedy waters spread | Q |
| The rootlets of the placid bloom | R |
| So sprung my love's flower that was bred | Q |
| In deep still waters of heart's gloom | R |
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| So sprung and so that morn was nursed | S |
| To live in light and on the pool | T |
| Wherein its roots were deep immersed | S |
| Burst into beauty broad and cool | T |
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| Few words were said a moment passed | U |
| I know not how it came that awe | V |
| And ardor of a glance that cast | U |
| Our love in universal law | W |
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| But all at once a bird sang loud | X |
| From dead twigs of the gleamy beech | Y |
| His notes dropped dewy as out of a cloud | X |
| A blessing on our married speech | Y |
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| Ah Love how fresh and rare even now | J |
| That moment and that mood return | K |
| Upon me when the soft winds blow | L |
| And lilies toward the sunlight yearn | K |
George Parsons Lathrop
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