Nymph And Zephyr: A Statuary Group. By Westmacott Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJK LLMMNO| AND the summer sun shone in the sky | A |
| And the rose's whole life was in its sigh | A |
| When her eyelids were kiss'd by a morning beam | B |
| And the Nymph rose up from her moonlit dream | B |
| For she had watch'd the midnight hour | C |
| Till her head had bow'd like a sleeping flower | C |
| But now she had waken'd and light and dew | D |
| Gave her morning freshness and morning hue | D |
| Up she sprang and away she fled | E |
| O'er the lithe grass stem and the blossom's head | E |
| From the lillies' bells she dash'd not the spray | F |
| For her feet were as light and as white as they | F |
| Sudden upon her arm there shone | G |
| A gem with the hues of an Indian stone | G |
| And she knew the insect bird whose wing | H |
| Is sacred to PSYCHE and to spring | H |
| But scarce had her touch its captive prest | I |
| Ere another prisoner was on her breast | I |
| And the Zephyr sought his prize again | J |
| 'No ' said the Nymph thy search is vain | K |
| And her golden hair from its braided yoke | L |
| Burst like the banner of hope as she spoke | L |
| 'And instead fair boy thou shalt moralize | M |
| Over the pleasure that from thee flies | M |
| Then it is pleasure for we possess | N |
| But in the search not in the success ' | O |
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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