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 HNI | A |
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PRELUDE | B |
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Daughter of Psyche pledge of that last night | C |
When pierced with pain and bitter sweet delight | C |
She knew her Love and saw her Lord depart | D |
Then breathed her wonder and her woe forlorn | E |
Into a single cry and thou wast born | E |
Thou flower of rapture and thou fruit of grief | F |
Invisible enchantress of the heart | D |
Mistress of charms that bring relief | F |
To sorrow and to joy impart | D |
A heavenly tone that keeps it undefiled | D |
Thou art the child | D |
Of Amor and by right divine | G |
A throne of love is thine | G |
Thou flower folded golden girdled star crowned Queen | H |
Whose bridal beauty mortal eyes have never seen | H |
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II | A |
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Thou art the Angel of the pool that sleeps | I |
While peace and joy lie hidden in its deeps | I |
Waiting thy touch to make the waters roll | J |
In healing murmurs round the weary soul | J |
Ah when wilt thou draw near | K |
Thou messenger of mercy robed in song | L |
My lonely heart has listened for thee long | L |
And now I seem to hear | M |
Across the crowded market place of life | N |
Thy measured foot fall ringing light and clear | K |
Above the unmeaning noises and the unruly strife | N |
In quiet cadence sweet and slow | O |
Serenely pacing to and fro | O |
Thy far off steps are magical and dear | K |
Ah turn this way come close and speak to me | P |
From this dull bed of languor set my spirit free | P |
And bid me rise and let me walk awhile with thee | P |
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III | A |
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Where wilt thou lead me first | D |
In what still region | Q |
Of thy domain | R |
Whose provinces are legion | Q |
Wilt thou restore me to myself again | S |
And quench my heart's long thirst | D |
I pray thee lay thy golden girdle down | T |
And put away thy starry crown | T |
For one dear restful hour | U |
Assume a state more mild | D |
Clad only in thy blossom broidered gown | T |
That breathes familiar scent of many a flower | U |
Take the low path that leads thro' pastures green | H |
And though thou art a Queen | H |
Be Rosamund awhile and in thy bower | U |
By tranquil love and simple joy beguiled | D |
Sing to my soul as mother to her child | D |
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IV | N |
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O lead me by the hand | D |
And let my heart have rest | D |
And bring me back to childhood land | D |
To find again the long lost band | D |
Of playmates blithe and blest | D |
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Some quaint old fashioned air | V |
That all the children knew | W |
Shall run before us everywhere | V |
Like a little maid with flying hair | V |
To guide the merry crew | W |
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Along the garden ways | I |
We chase the light foot tune | X |
And in and out the flowery maze | I |
With eager haste and fond delays | I |
In pleasant paths of June | X |
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For us the fields are new | W |
For us the woods are rife | N |
With fairy secrets deep and true | W |
And heaven is but a tent of blue | W |
Above the game of life | N |
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The world is far away | Y |
The fever and the fret | D |
And all that makes the heart grow gray | Y |
Is out of sight and far away | Y |
Dear Music while I hear thee play | Y |
That olden golden roundelay | Y |
Remember and forget | D |
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V | N |
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SLEEP SONG | L |
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Forget forget | D |
The tide of life is turning | Z |
The waves of light ebb slowly down the west | D |
Along the edge of dark some stars are burning | Z |
To guide thy spirit safely to an isle of rest | D |
A little rocking on the tranquil deep | A2 |
Of song to soothe thy yearning | Z |
A little slumber and a little sleep | A2 |
And so forget forget | D |
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Forget forget | D |
The day was long in pleasure | U |
Its echoes die away across the hill | Y |
Now let thy heart beat time to their slow measure | U |
That swells and sinks and faints and falls till all is still | Y |
Then like a weary child that loves to keep | A2 |
Locked in its arms some treasure | U |
Thy soul in calm content shall fall asleep | A2 |
And so forget forget | D |
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Forget forget | D |
And if thou hast been weeping | Z |
Let go the thoughts that bind thee to thy grief | N |
Lie still and watch the singing angels reaping | Z |
The golden harvest of thy sorrow sheaf by sheaf | N |
Or count thy joys like flocks of snow white sheep | A2 |
That one by one come creeping | Z |
Into the quiet fold until thou sleep | A2 |
And so forget forget | D |
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Forget forget | D |
Thou art a child and knowest | D |
So little of thy life But music tells | I |
One secret of the world thro' which thou goest | D |
To work with morning song to rest with evening bells | I |
Life is in tune with harmony so deep | A2 |
That when the notes are lowest | D |
Thou still canst lay thee down in peace and sleep | A2 |
For God will not forget | D |
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VI | N |
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HUNTING SONG | L |
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Out of the garden of playtime out of the bower of rest | D |
Fain would I follow at daytime music that calls to a quest | D |
Hark how the galloping measure | U |
Quickens the pulses of pleasure | U |
Gaily saluting the morn | E |
With the long clear note of the hunting horn | E |
Echoing up from the valley | N |
Over the mountain side | D |
Rally you hunters rally | N |
Rally and ride | D |
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Drink of the magical potion music has mixed with her wine | G |
Full of the madness of motion joyful exultant divine | G |
Leave all your troubles behind you | W |
Ride where they never can find you | W |
Into the gladness of morn | E |
With the long clear note of the hunting horn | E |
Swiftly o'er hillock and hollow | Y |
Sweeping along with the wind | D |
Follow you hunters follow | Y |
Follow and find | D |
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What will you reach with your riding What is the charm of the chase | I |
Just the delight and the striding swing of the jubilant pace | I |
Danger is sweet when you front her | U |
In at the death every hunter | U |
Now on the breeze the mort is borne | E |
In the long clear note of the hunting horn | E |
Winding merrily over and over | U |
Come come come | B2 |
Home again Ranger home again Rover | U |
Turn again home | C2 |
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VII | N |
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DANCE MUSIC | D2 |
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Now let the sleep tune blend with the play tune | X |
Weaving the mystical spell of the dance | I |
Lighten the deep tune soften the gay tune | X |
Mingle a tempo that turns in a trance | I |
Half of it sighing half of it smiling | Z |
Smoothly it swings with a triplicate beat | D |
Calling replying yearning beguiling | Z |
Wooing the heart and bewitching the feet | D |
Every drop of blood | D |
Rises with the flood | D |
Rocking on the waves of the strain | R |
Youth and beauty glide | D |
Turning with the tide | D |
Music making one out of twain | R |
Bearing them away and away and away | Y |
Like a tone and its terce | I |
Till the chord dissolves and the dancers stay | Y |
And reverse | I |
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Violins leading take up the measure | U |
Turn with the tune again clarinets clear | K |
Answer their pleading harps full of pleasure | U |
Sprinkle their silver like light on the mere | K |
Semiquaver notes | I |
Merry little motes | I |
Tangled in the haze | I |
Of the lamp's golden rays | I |
Quiver everywhere | V |
In the air | V |
Like a spray | Y |
Till the fuller stream of the might of the tune | X |
Gliding like a dream in the light of the moon | X |
Bears them all away and away and away | Y |
Floating in the trance of the dance | I |
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Then begins a measure stately | N |
Languid slow serene | H |
All the dancers move sedately | N |
Stepping leisurely and straitly | N |
With a courtly mien | H |
Crossing hands and changing places | I |
Bowing low between | H |
While the minuet inlaces | I |
Waving arms and woven paces | I |
Glittering damaskeen | H |
Where is she whose form is folden | H |
In its royal sheen | H |
From our longing eyes withholden | H |
By her mystic girdle golden | H |
Beauty sought but never seen | H |
Music walks the maze a queen | H |
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VIII | N |
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THE SYMPHONY | H |
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Music they do thee wrong who say thine art | D |
Is only to enchant the sense | I |
For every timid motion of the heart | D |
And every passion too intense | I |
To bear the chain of the imperfect word | D |
And every tremulous longing stirred | D |
By spirit winds that come we know not whence | I |
And go we know not where | V |
And every inarticulate prayer | V |
Beating about the depths of pain or bliss | I |
Like some bewildered bird | D |
That seeks its nest but knows not where it is | I |
And every dream that haunts with dim delight | D |
The drowsy hour between the day and night | D |
The wakeful hour between the night and day | Y |
Imprisoned waits for thee | H |
Impatient yearns for thee | H |
The queen who comes to set the captive free | H |
Thou lendest wings to grief to fly away | Y |
And wings to joy to reach a heavenly height | D |
And every dumb desire that Storms within the breast | D |
Thou leadest forth to sob or sing itself to rest | D |
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All these are thine and therefore love is thine | H |
For love is joy and grief | N |
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Henry Van Dyke
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