An Idyl Of The May Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBBA DEDFFFGGHHIIIJJAACII CIKKILMLLM CHHCNOON PQPPRARCCA DDIPPPSPSAA STES PIPIIIUIPPU VVWWVVUU XYYZLA2A2L CACAVB2C2C2B2 D2D2AAD2

In the beautiful May weatherA
Lapsing soon into JuneB
On a golden golden dayC
Of the green and golden MayC
When our hearts were beating tuneB
To the coming feet of JuneB
Walked we in the woods togetherA
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Silver fineD
Gleamed the ash buds through the darknessE
of the pineD
And the waters of the streamF
Glance and gleamF
Like a silver footed dreamF
Beckoning callingG
Flashing fallingG
Into shadows dun and brownH
Slipping downH
Calling still Oh hear Oh followI
Follow followI
Down through glen and ferny hollowI
Lit with patches of the skyJ
Shining through the trees so highJ
Hand in hand we went togetherA
In the golden golden weatherA
Of the MayC
While the fleet wing of the swallowI
Flashing by called follow followI
And we followed through the dayC
Speaking lowI
Speaking often not at allK
To the brooklet's crystal callK
With our lingering feet and slowI
Slow and pausing here and thereL
For a flower or a fernM
For the lovely maiden hairL
Hearing voices in the airL
Calling faintly down the burnM
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Still the streamlet slid awayC
Singing smiling dimpling downH
To a mossy nook and brownH
Under bending boughs of MayC
Where the nodding wind flower growsN
And the coolwort's lovely pinkO
Brooding o'er the brooklet's brinkO
Dips and blushes like a roseN
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And the faint smell of the mouldP
Sweeter than the musky scentQ
Of the garden's manifoldP
Perfumes into perfect blentP
Lights and sounds and odours stoleR
In the golden golden weatherA
Heart and thought and life and soulR
Stole awayC
In that merry merry MayC
Wandering down the burn togetherA
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Ah Valentine my ValentineD
Heard I with my hand in thineD
Grave and low and sweet and slowI
As the wood bird over headP
Brooding notes half sung half saidP
In the world so bleak and wideP
Hearts make Edens of their ownS
Wilt thou linger by my sideP
Wilt thou live for me aloneS
Making bright the winter weatherA
Thou and I and love togetherA
-
Yea I said for thee aloneS
Shading eyes lest they confessT
Too much their own happinessE
With the happy tears o'erflownS
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Gravely thou The world is notP
Like this ferny hollowI
Through a rougher thornier lotP
Wilt thou bravely followI
Still the brook with softer flowI
Called Oh hear Oh followI
Aye I said with bated breathU
Where thou goest I will goI
Holding still thy stronger handP
Through the dreariest desert landP
True till deathU
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Silence fell between us twoV
Noiseless as the silver dewV
Hearts that had no need of speechW
In the silence spoke to eachW
And along the sapphire blueV
Shot with shafts of sunset throughV
Fell a voice a bodiless breathU
True till deathU
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Through a mist of smiles and tearsX
Doubts and fears and toils and dreamsY
Oh how long ago it seemsY
Looking back across the yearZ
Silver threads are in my hairL
And the sunset shadows slopeA2
Back along the hills of hopeA2
That before us shone so fairL
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Ah for us the merry MayC
Comes no more with golden weatherA
Fields and woods and sunshine gayC
Purple skies and purple heatherA
We have had our holydayV
And I sit with folded handsB2
In the twilight looking backC2
Over life's uneven trackC2
Thorny wilds and desert sandsB2
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Weary heart unwearied faithD2
In the twilight softly saithD2
We have had our golden weatherA
We have walked through life togetherA
True till deathD2

Kate Seymour Maclean



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