Music Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A B CCDEEFDFDDDGGHH A IIJJKLLMNKNOOKPPP A DQRQSDTTUDTUHHUDD N DDDDD VWVVW IXIIX WNWWN YDYYYYD N L DZDZDA2ZA2D DUYUYA2UA2D DZNZNA2ZA2D DDIDIA2DA2D N L DDUUEENDND GGWWEEYDYD IIUUEEUB2UC2 N D2 XIXIZDZDDDRDDRYIYI UKUKIIIIVVYXXYI NHNNHIHIIHHHHHHH N H DIDIDDIVVIDIDDYHHHYD DD HN

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PRELUDEB
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Daughter of Psyche pledge of that last nightC
When pierced with pain and bitter sweet delightC
She knew her Love and saw her Lord departD
Then breathed her wonder and her woe forlornE
Into a single cry and thou wast bornE
Thou flower of rapture and thou fruit of griefF
Invisible enchantress of the heartD
Mistress of charms that bring reliefF
To sorrow and to joy impartD
A heavenly tone that keeps it undefiledD
Thou art the childD
Of Amor and by right divineG
A throne of love is thineG
Thou flower folded golden girdled star crowned QueenH
Whose bridal beauty mortal eyes have never seenH
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IIA
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Thou art the Angel of the pool that sleepsI
While peace and joy lie hidden in its deepsI
Waiting thy touch to make the waters rollJ
In healing murmurs round the weary soulJ
Ah when wilt thou draw nearK
Thou messenger of mercy robed in songL
My lonely heart has listened for thee longL
And now I seem to hearM
Across the crowded market place of lifeN
Thy measured foot fall ringing light and clearK
Above the unmeaning noises and the unruly strifeN
In quiet cadence sweet and slowO
Serenely pacing to and froO
Thy far off steps are magical and dearK
Ah turn this way come close and speak to meP
From this dull bed of languor set my spirit freeP
And bid me rise and let me walk awhile with theeP
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IIIA
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Where wilt thou lead me firstD
In what still regionQ
Of thy domainR
Whose provinces are legionQ
Wilt thou restore me to myself againS
And quench my heart's long thirstD
I pray thee lay thy golden girdle downT
And put away thy starry crownT
For one dear restful hourU
Assume a state more mildD
Clad only in thy blossom broidered gownT
That breathes familiar scent of many a flowerU
Take the low path that leads thro' pastures greenH
And though thou art a QueenH
Be Rosamund awhile and in thy bowerU
By tranquil love and simple joy beguiledD
Sing to my soul as mother to her childD
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IVN
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O lead me by the handD
And let my heart have restD
And bring me back to childhood landD
To find again the long lost bandD
Of playmates blithe and blestD
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Some quaint old fashioned airV
That all the children knewW
Shall run before us everywhereV
Like a little maid with flying hairV
To guide the merry crewW
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Along the garden waysI
We chase the light foot tuneX
And in and out the flowery mazeI
With eager haste and fond delaysI
In pleasant paths of JuneX
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For us the fields are newW
For us the woods are rifeN
With fairy secrets deep and trueW
And heaven is but a tent of blueW
Above the game of lifeN
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The world is far awayY
The fever and the fretD
And all that makes the heart grow grayY
Is out of sight and far awayY
Dear Music while I hear thee playY
That olden golden roundelayY
Remember and forgetD
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VN
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SLEEP SONGL
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Forget forgetD
The tide of life is turningZ
The waves of light ebb slowly down the westD
Along the edge of dark some stars are burningZ
To guide thy spirit safely to an isle of restD
A little rocking on the tranquil deepA2
Of song to soothe thy yearningZ
A little slumber and a little sleepA2
And so forget forgetD
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Forget forgetD
The day was long in pleasureU
Its echoes die away across the hillY
Now let thy heart beat time to their slow measureU
That swells and sinks and faints and falls till all is stillY
Then like a weary child that loves to keepA2
Locked in its arms some treasureU
Thy soul in calm content shall fall asleepA2
And so forget forgetD
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Forget forgetD
And if thou hast been weepingZ
Let go the thoughts that bind thee to thy griefN
Lie still and watch the singing angels reapingZ
The golden harvest of thy sorrow sheaf by sheafN
Or count thy joys like flocks of snow white sheepA2
That one by one come creepingZ
Into the quiet fold until thou sleepA2
And so forget forgetD
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Forget forgetD
Thou art a child and knowestD
So little of thy life But music tellsI
One secret of the world thro' which thou goestD
To work with morning song to rest with evening bellsI
Life is in tune with harmony so deepA2
That when the notes are lowestD
Thou still canst lay thee down in peace and sleepA2
For God will not forgetD
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VIN
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HUNTING SONGL
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Out of the garden of playtime out of the bower of restD
Fain would I follow at daytime music that calls to a questD
Hark how the galloping measureU
Quickens the pulses of pleasureU
Gaily saluting the mornE
With the long clear note of the hunting hornE
Echoing up from the valleyN
Over the mountain sideD
Rally you hunters rallyN
Rally and rideD
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Drink of the magical potion music has mixed with her wineG
Full of the madness of motion joyful exultant divineG
Leave all your troubles behind youW
Ride where they never can find youW
Into the gladness of mornE
With the long clear note of the hunting hornE
Swiftly o'er hillock and hollowY
Sweeping along with the windD
Follow you hunters followY
Follow and findD
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What will you reach with your riding What is the charm of the chaseI
Just the delight and the striding swing of the jubilant paceI
Danger is sweet when you front herU
In at the death every hunterU
Now on the breeze the mort is borneE
In the long clear note of the hunting hornE
Winding merrily over and overU
Come come comeB2
Home again Ranger home again RoverU
Turn again homeC2
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VIIN
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DANCE MUSICD2
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Now let the sleep tune blend with the play tuneX
Weaving the mystical spell of the danceI
Lighten the deep tune soften the gay tuneX
Mingle a tempo that turns in a tranceI
Half of it sighing half of it smilingZ
Smoothly it swings with a triplicate beatD
Calling replying yearning beguilingZ
Wooing the heart and bewitching the feetD
Every drop of bloodD
Rises with the floodD
Rocking on the waves of the strainR
Youth and beauty glideD
Turning with the tideD
Music making one out of twainR
Bearing them away and away and awayY
Like a tone and its terceI
Till the chord dissolves and the dancers stayY
And reverseI
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Violins leading take up the measureU
Turn with the tune again clarinets clearK
Answer their pleading harps full of pleasureU
Sprinkle their silver like light on the mereK
Semiquaver notesI
Merry little motesI
Tangled in the hazeI
Of the lamp's golden raysI
Quiver everywhereV
In the airV
Like a sprayY
Till the fuller stream of the might of the tuneX
Gliding like a dream in the light of the moonX
Bears them all away and away and awayY
Floating in the trance of the danceI
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Then begins a measure statelyN
Languid slow sereneH
All the dancers move sedatelyN
Stepping leisurely and straitlyN
With a courtly mienH
Crossing hands and changing placesI
Bowing low betweenH
While the minuet inlacesI
Waving arms and woven pacesI
Glittering damaskeenH
Where is she whose form is foldenH
In its royal sheenH
From our longing eyes withholdenH
By her mystic girdle goldenH
Beauty sought but never seenH
Music walks the maze a queenH
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VIIIN
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THE SYMPHONYH
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Music they do thee wrong who say thine artD
Is only to enchant the senseI
For every timid motion of the heartD
And every passion too intenseI
To bear the chain of the imperfect wordD
And every tremulous longing stirredD
By spirit winds that come we know not whenceI
And go we know not whereV
And every inarticulate prayerV
Beating about the depths of pain or blissI
Like some bewildered birdD
That seeks its nest but knows not where it isI
And every dream that haunts with dim delightD
The drowsy hour between the day and nightD
The wakeful hour between the night and dayY
Imprisoned waits for theeH
Impatient yearns for theeH
The queen who comes to set the captive freeH
Thou lendest wings to grief to fly awayY
And wings to joy to reach a heavenly heightD
And every dumb desire that Storms within the breastD
Thou leadest forth to sob or sing itself to restD
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All these are thine and therefore love is thineH
For love is joy and griefN
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Henry Van Dyke



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