Cleone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL MNOPQRQR| Sing her a song of the sun | A |
| Fill it with tones of the stream | B |
| Echoes of waters that run | A |
| Glad with the gladdening gleam | B |
| Let it be sweeter than rain | C |
| Lit by a tropical moon | D |
| Light in the words of the strain | C |
| Love in the ways of the tune | D |
| Softer than seasons of sleep | E |
| Dearer than life at its best | F |
| Give her a ballad to keep | E |
| Wove of the passionate West | F |
| Give it and say of the hours | G |
| Haunted and hallowed of thee | H |
| Flower like woman of flowers | G |
| What shall the end of them be | H |
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| You that have loved her so much | I |
| Loved her asleep and awake | J |
| Trembled because of her touch | I |
| What have you said for her sake | J |
| Far in the falls of the day | K |
| Down in the meadows of myrrh | L |
| What has she left you to say | K |
| Filled with the beauty of her | L |
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| Take her the best of your thoughts | M |
| Let them be gentle and grave | N |
| Say I have come to thy courts | O |
| Maiden with all that I have | P |
| So she may turn with her sweet | Q |
| Face to your love and to you | R |
| Learning the way to repeat | Q |
| Words that are brighter than dew | R |
Henry Kendall
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