A May Monody Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABC ADADC AEAEC AFAFC AGAHC AIAIC JAKAC| Beside my opened window pane | A |
| Each morning in this month of May | B |
| A blackbird sings in dulcet strain | A |
| Two liquid notes which seem to say | B |
| Come again Come again | C |
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| Alike in sunshine and in rain | A |
| Now loud and clear now soft and low | D |
| He warbles forth the same refrain | A |
| Which haunts me with its hint of woe | D |
| Come again Come again | C |
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| What bird whose absence gives him pain | A |
| Doth he thus tenderly recall | E |
| What longed for joy would he regain | A |
| By those two words which rise and fall | E |
| Come again Come again | C |
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| Sometimes when I too long have lain | A |
| And listened to his plaintive air | F |
| An impulse I cannot restrain | A |
| Hath moved me too to breathe that prayer | F |
| Come again Come again | C |
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| O vanished youth when faith was plain | A |
| When hopes were high and manhood's years | G |
| Showed dazzling summits to attain | A |
| O days ere eyes grew dim with tears | H |
| Come again Come again | C |
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| O friends whose memory leaves no stain | A |
| O dearly loved and early lost | I |
| Do you your love for me retain | A |
| Beyond the silent sea you crossed | I |
| Come again Come again | C |
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| Alas sweet bird all life moves on | J |
| The seed becomes the ripened grain | A |
| And what is past is gone is gone | K |
| Cease calling therefore 'tis in vain | A |
| Come again Come again | C |
John L. Stoddard
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