Song Written At The Age Of Fourteen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDB EBEBDDB FBGBHHB HBCBIIB EHJHHHH| Softly softly blow ye breezes | A |
| Gently o'er my Edwy fly | B |
| Lo he slumbers slumbers sweetly | C |
| Softly zephyrs pass him by | B |
| My love is asleep | D |
| He lies by the deep | D |
| All along where the salt waves sigh | B |
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| I have cover'd him with rushes | E |
| Water flags and branches dry | B |
| Edwy long have been thy slumbers | E |
| Edwy Edwy ope thine eye | B |
| My love is asleep | D |
| He lies by the deep | D |
| All along where the salt waves sigh | B |
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| Still he sleeps he will not waken | F |
| Fastly closed is his eye | B |
| Paler is his cheek and chiller | G |
| Than the icy moon on high | B |
| Alas he is dead | H |
| He has chose his death bed | H |
| All along where the salt waves sigh | B |
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| Is it is it so my Edwy | H |
| Will thy slumbers never fly | B |
| Couldst thou think I would survive thee | C |
| No my love thou bid'st me die | B |
| Thou bid'st me seek | I |
| Thy death bed bleak | I |
| All along where the salt waves sigh | B |
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| I will gently kiss thy cold lips | E |
| On thy breast I'll lay my head | H |
| And the winds shall sing our death dirge | J |
| And our shroud the waters spread | H |
| The moon will smile sweet | H |
| And the wild wave will beat | H |
| Oh so softly o'er our lonely bed | H |
Henry Kirk White
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