The Bacchanal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FCFCGHGH IBIBJKJK LDLDMNMO PQPRSASA TUTUVDVD WSWSXVXABeside a cottage door | A |
Sang Ella at her wheel | B |
Ruthven rode o'er the moor | C |
Down at her feet to kneel | B |
A spotted palfrey gay | D |
Came ambling at his side | E |
To bear the maid away | D |
As his affianced bride | E |
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A high born noble he | F |
Of stately halls secure | C |
A low born peasant she | F |
Of parentage obscure | C |
How soft the honeyed words | G |
He breathes into her ears | H |
The melody of birds | G |
The music of the spheres | H |
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With love her bosom swells | I |
Which she would fain conceal | B |
Her eyes like crystal wells | I |
Its hidden depths reveal | B |
While liquid diamonds drip | J |
From feeling's fountain warm | K |
Flutters her scarlet lip | J |
A rose leaf in a storm | K |
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As from an April sky | L |
The rain clouds flit away | D |
So from the maiden's eye | L |
Vanished the falling spray | D |
Which lingered but awhile | M |
Her dimpled cheek upon | N |
Then melted in her smile | M |
Like vapor in the sun | O |
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The maid is all his own | P |
She trusts his plighted word | Q |
And lightly on the roan | P |
She springs beside her lord | R |
She leaves her father's cot | S |
She turns her from the door | A |
That green and holy spot | S |
Which she will see no more | A |
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They hied to distant lands | T |
That lord and peasant maid | U |
The church ne'er joined their hands | T |
For Ella was betrayed | U |
Torn from her native bower | V |
That modest rose of May | D |
Drooped in his stately tower | V |
And passed from earth away | D |
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They laid her in the ground | W |
And Ella was forgot | S |
Dead was her father found | W |
In his deserted cot | S |
But Ruthven what of him | X |
He ran the story o'er | V |
And filling to the brim | X |
He thought of it no more | A |
George Pope Morris
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