Endymion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDE FFGH IIJJ KKLM NNOO OPQRIIRR SSTT| The rising moon has hid the stars | A |
| Her level rays like golden bars | A |
| Lie on the landscape green | B |
| With shadows brown between | B |
| - | |
| And silver white the river gleams | C |
| As if Diana in her dreams | C |
| Had dropt her silver bow | D |
| Upon the meadows low | E |
| - | |
| On such a tranquil night as this | F |
| She woke Endymion with a kiss | F |
| When sleeping in the grove | G |
| He dreamed not of her love | H |
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| Like dian's kiss unasked unsought | I |
| Love gives itself but is not bought | I |
| Nor voice nor sound betrays | J |
| Its deep impassioned gaze | J |
| - | |
| It comes the beautiful the free | K |
| The crown of all humanity | K |
| In silence and alone | L |
| To seek the elected one | M |
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| It lifts the boughs whose shadows deep | N |
| Are Life's oblivion the soul's sleep | N |
| And kisses the closed eyes | O |
| Of him who slumbering lies | O |
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| O weary hearts O slumbering eyes | O |
| O drooping souls whose destinies | P |
| Are fraught with fear and pain | Q |
| Ye shall be loved again | R |
| No one is so accursed by fate | I |
| No one so utterly desolate | I |
| But some heart though unknmown | R |
| Responds unto his own | R |
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| Responds as if with unseen wings | S |
| An angel touched its quivering strings | S |
| And whispers in its song | T |
| Where hast thou stayed so long | T |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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