From The Spanish Cancioneros Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBDEEEFGGF AHII FJJFFII IIIIIII AKFKFKLMKKFKFBLLBKFK F NOBBOOIINNI| I | A |
| Eyes so tristful eyes so tristful | B |
| Heart so full of care and cumber | C |
| I was lapped in rest and slumber | C |
| Ye have made me wakeful wistful | B |
| In this life of labor endless | D |
| Who shall comfort my distresses | E |
| Querulous my soul and friendless | E |
| In its sorrow shuns caresses | E |
| Ye have made me ye have made me | F |
| Querulous of you that care not | G |
| Eyes so tristful yet I dare not | G |
| Say to what ye have betrayed me | F |
| - | |
| II | A |
| Some day some day | H |
| O troubled breast | I |
| Shalt thou find rest | I |
| - | |
| If Love in thee | F |
| To grief give birth | J |
| Six feet of earth | J |
| Can more than he | F |
| There calm and free | F |
| And unoppressed | I |
| Shalt thou find rest | I |
| - | |
| The unattained | I |
| In life at last | I |
| When life is passed | I |
| Shall all be gained | I |
| And no more pained | I |
| No more distressed | I |
| Shalt thou find rest | I |
| - | |
| III | A |
| Come O Death so silent flying | K |
| That unheard thy coming be | F |
| Lest the sweet delight of dying | K |
| Bring life back again to me | F |
| For thy sure approach perceiving | K |
| In my constancy and pain | L |
| I new life should win again | M |
| Thinking that I am not living | K |
| So to me unconscious lying | K |
| All unknown thy coming be | F |
| Lest the sweet delight of dying | K |
| Bring life back again to me | F |
| Unto him who finds thee hateful | B |
| Death thou art inhuman pain | L |
| But to me who dying gain | L |
| Life is but a task ungrateful | B |
| Come then with my wish complying | K |
| All unheard thy coming be | F |
| Lest the sweet delight of dying | K |
| Bring life back again to me | F |
| - | |
| IV | N |
| Glove of black in white hand bare | O |
| And about her forehead pale | B |
| Wound a thin transparent veil | B |
| That doth not conceal her hair | O |
| Sovereign attitude and air | O |
| Cheek and neck alike displayed | I |
| With coquettish charms arrayed | I |
| Laughing eyes and fugitive | N |
| This is killing men that live | N |
| 'Tis not mourning for the dead | I |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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