The Bacchanal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FCFCGHGH IBIBJKJK LDLDMNMO PQPRSASA TUTUVDVD WSWSXVXA| Beside 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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