The Serenade. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A ABAB A CBCB A DBDB A EBEB A FBFB A ABAB| I | A |
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| The winds were hushed and thin and high | A |
| The fleecy clouds were drifting | B |
| And through them as she sailed the sky | A |
| The moon's soft light was sifting | B |
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| II | A |
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| Beneath her pale and tender ray | C |
| Its silvery kiss imprinting | B |
| All dew bedecked each flower and spray | C |
| Like myriad jewels glinting | B |
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| III | A |
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| Across the lawn there floats the sound | D |
| Of music sweet entrancing | B |
| 'Neath a latticed casement ivy bound | D |
| Where love lit eyes were glancing | B |
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| IV | A |
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| The flute and harp and mandolin | E |
| There dulcet notes were blending | B |
| And strains divine from a violin | E |
| In harmony ascending | B |
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| V | A |
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| Enraptured by the magic spell | F |
| I lingering stood and listening | B |
| It seemed to me that I could tell | F |
| What love to her was whispering | B |
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| VI | A |
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| I looked above and chanced to see | A |
| The man in the moon was scowling | B |
| For they had struck up Sweet Marie | A |
| And the old watch dog was howling | B |
George W. Doneghy
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