Ortygia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFBBGGBBHH IIJJEE| IN Ortygia the Dawn land the old gods dwell | A |
| And the silver s yet a quiver on the old wizard well | A |
| By the milk white walls of the Temple of the Moon | B |
| Where the Dawn Maids hallow the red gods tune | B |
| And old grey Time is a nine year child | C |
| Back between the rivers ere man was ever guiled | C |
| Or the knelling Never never by the cherubim was rung | D |
| It was there there there in Ortygia the young | D |
| It was there there there in the meadows of the sky | E |
| That first we went a summering my love of loves and I | E |
| And well I wot the pleasaunce for them that thither go | F |
| Is litten with the beacons that the Dawn Maids know | F |
| With their vigil at end in the Temple of the Moon | B |
| And their prayer all prayer for the waked world s boon | B |
| The words they speak in that land are new as the dawn | G |
| The rills that run in that land are diamond drawn | G |
| From the old wizard well where the red gods croon | B |
| And walk you in Ortygia or late or soon | B |
| It is but lovers only that ever you will see | H |
| For every silver wood king s a trysting tree | H |
| And the dream flowers are keeping their first high May | I |
| For the glad and the glamoured who walk yon way | I |
| And to the summit etherous the track you cannot miss | J |
| Though the hills are dim and sheeny with the rainbow s kiss | J |
| O we walked the road of iris my love of loves and I | E |
| In Ortygia the young with the red gods by | E |
Jessie Mackay
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