The Faun Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAA CDCD AEAE AFAF AGAG HDHD HAHA IJIJ HKHK HLHL HMHM NONO APAP

Within my garden's silence and seclusionA
In pensive beauty gazing toward the dawnB
There stands mid vines and flowers in profusionA
A sculptured FaunA
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The boughs of stately trees are bending o'er himC
The scent of calycanthus fills the airD
And on the ivied parapet before himC
Bloom roses fairD
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Beside him laughs the lightly flowing fountainA
Beneath him spreads the lake's enchanting hueE
And opposite a sun illumined mountainA
Meets heaven's blueE
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Across Lake Como's silvered undulationA
The flush of dawn creeps shyly to his faceF
And crowns his look of dreamful contemplationA
With tender graceF
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And he like Memnon thrilled to exultationA
As if unable longer to be muteG
Has lifted to his lips in adorationA
His simple fluteG
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Ah would that I might hear the music stealingH
From yonder artless reed upon the airD
The subtle revelation of his feelingH
While standing thereD
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Perhaps 'tis for the Past that he is sighingH
When Como's shore held many a hallowed shrineA
Where such as he were worshipped none denyingH
Their rights divineA
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That Past is gone its sylvan shrines have crumbledI
From lake and grove the gentle fauns have fledJ
Its myths are scorned Olympus has been humbledI
And Pan is deadJ
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Yet still he plays the coming day adoringH
With brow serene and gladness in his gazeK
All past and future happiness ignoringH
Just for to day'sK
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Sweet Faun whence comes thy power of retainingH
Through storm and sunshine thine unchanging smileL
Forsaken thus what comfort still remainingH
Makes life worth whileL
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Impart to me the secret of discerningH
The gold of life with none of its alloyM
That I may also satisfy my yearningH
For perfect joyM
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I too would shun those questions born of sorrowN
Life's Wherefore Whence and Whither I would fillO
My cup with present bliss and let to morrowN
Bring what it willO
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O Spirit of the vanished world elysianA
Cast over me the spell of thy controlP
And give me for to day's supernal visionA
Thy Pagan soulP

John L. Stoddard



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