The Bacchanal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FCFCGHGH IBIBJKJK LDLDMNMO PQPRSASA TUTUVDVD WSWSXVXA

Beside a cottage doorA
Sang Ella at her wheelB
Ruthven rode o'er the moorC
Down at her feet to kneelB
A spotted palfrey gayD
Came ambling at his sideE
To bear the maid awayD
As his affianced brideE
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A high born noble heF
Of stately halls secureC
A low born peasant sheF
Of parentage obscureC
How soft the honeyed wordsG
He breathes into her earsH
The melody of birdsG
The music of the spheresH
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With love her bosom swellsI
Which she would fain concealB
Her eyes like crystal wellsI
Its hidden depths revealB
While liquid diamonds dripJ
From feeling's fountain warmK
Flutters her scarlet lipJ
A rose leaf in a stormK
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As from an April skyL
The rain clouds flit awayD
So from the maiden's eyeL
Vanished the falling sprayD
Which lingered but awhileM
Her dimpled cheek uponN
Then melted in her smileM
Like vapor in the sunO
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The maid is all his ownP
She trusts his plighted wordQ
And lightly on the roanP
She springs beside her lordR
She leaves her father's cotS
She turns her from the doorA
That green and holy spotS
Which she will see no moreA
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They hied to distant landsT
That lord and peasant maidU
The church ne'er joined their handsT
For Ella was betrayedU
Torn from her native bowerV
That modest rose of MayD
Drooped in his stately towerV
And passed from earth awayD
-
They laid her in the groundW
And Ella was forgotS
Dead was her father foundW
In his deserted cotS
But Ruthven what of himX
He ran the story o'erV
And filling to the brimX
He thought of it no moreA

George Pope Morris



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