While The Musician Played Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFBGBG BHBHIJIK IBIBLMLM BBBBCDCD| O it was but a dream I had | A |
| While the musician played | B |
| And here the sky and here the glad | A |
| Old ocean kissed the glade | B |
| And here the laughing ripples ran | C |
| And here the roses grew | D |
| That threw a kiss to every man | C |
| That voyaged with the crew | D |
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| Our silken sails in lazy folds | E |
| Drooped in the breathless breeze | F |
| As o'er a field of marigolds | E |
| Our eyes swam o'er the seas | F |
| While here the eddies lisped and purled | B |
| Around the island's rim | G |
| And up from out the underworld | B |
| We saw the mermen swim | G |
| - | |
| And it was dawn and middle day | B |
| And midnight for the moon | H |
| On silver rounds across the bay | B |
| Had climbed the skies of June | H |
| And there the glowing glorious king | I |
| Of day ruled o'er his realm | J |
| With stars of midnight glittering | I |
| About his diadem | K |
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| The seagull reeled on languid wing | I |
| In circles round the mast | B |
| We heard the songs the sirens sing | I |
| As we went sailing past | B |
| And up and down the golden sands | L |
| A thousand fairy throngs | M |
| Flung at us from their flashing hands | L |
| The echoes of their songs | M |
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| O it was but a dream I had | B |
| While the musician played | B |
| For here the sky and here the glad | B |
| Old ocean kissed the glade | B |
| And here the laughing ripples ran | C |
| And here the roses grew | D |
| That threw a kiss to every man | C |
| That voyaged with the crew | D |
James Whitcomb Riley
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