Illileo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BBBB CCCC AAAA DDDD AAAA| Illileo the moonlight seemed lost across the vales | A |
| The stars but strewed the azure as an armor's scattered scales | A |
| The airs of night were quiet as the breath of silken sails | A |
| And all your words were sweeter than the notes of nightingales | A |
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| Illileo Legardi in the garden there alone | B |
| With your figure carved of fervor as the Psyche carved of stone | B |
| There came to me no murmur of the fountain's undertone | B |
| So mystically musically mellow as your own | B |
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| You whispered low Illileo so low the leaves were mute | C |
| And the echoes faltered breathless in your voice's vain pursuit | C |
| And there died the distant dalliance of the serenader's lute | C |
| And I held you in my bosom as the husk may hold the fruit | C |
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| Illileo I listened I believed you In my bliss | A |
| What were all the worlds above me since I found you thus in this | A |
| Let them reeling reach to win me even Heaven I would miss | A |
| Grasping earthward I would cling here though I clung by just a kiss | A |
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| And blossoms should grow odorless and lilies all aghast | D |
| And I said the stars should slacken in their paces through the vast | D |
| Ere yet my loyalty should fail enduring to the last | D |
| So vowed I It is written It is changeless as the past | D |
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| IIlileo Legardi in the shade your palace throws | A |
| Like a cowl about the singer at your gilded porticos | A |
| A moan goes with the music that may vex the high repose | A |
| Of a heart that fades and crumbles as the crimson of a rose | A |
James Whitcomb Riley
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