To The Air Of Lorelei Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDE A FGFGHIHI A DJDJBKBL M DNDNDIDI| I | A |
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| Alone on a hillside of heather | B |
| I lay with dark thoughts in my mind | C |
| In the midst of the beautiful weather | B |
| I was deaf I was dumb I was blind | C |
| I knew not the glories around me | D |
| I counted the world as it seems | E |
| Till a spirit of melody found me | D |
| And taught me in visions and dreams | E |
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| II | A |
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| For the sound of a chorus of voices | F |
| Came gathering up from below | G |
| And I heard how all Nature rejoices | F |
| And moves with a musical flow | G |
| O strange we are lost in delusion | H |
| Our ways and doings are wrong | I |
| We are drowning in wilful confusion | H |
| The notes of that wonderful song | I |
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| III | A |
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| But listen what harmony holy | D |
| Is mingling its notes with our own | J |
| The discord is vanishing slowly | D |
| And melts in that dominant tone | J |
| And they that have heard it can never | B |
| Return to confusion again | K |
| Their voices are music for ever | B |
| And join in the mystical strain | L |
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| IV | M |
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| No mortal can utter the beauty | D |
| That dwells in the song that they sing | N |
| They move in the pathway of duty | D |
| They follow the steps of their King | N |
| I would barter the world and its glory | D |
| That vision of joy to prolong | I |
| Or to hear and remember the story | D |
| That lies in the heart of their song | I |
James Clerk Maxwell
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