The Limnad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDDDDC E FFFCGGGGC E HHHIDDDDI J KKKLMMMMM J MMMIMMMMI J MMMIFFFFI| The lake she haunts gleams dreamily | A |
| 'Twixt sleepy boughs of melody | B |
| Set 'mid the hills beside the sea | B |
| In tangled bush and brier | C |
| Where the ghostly sunsets write | D |
| Wondrous things in golden light | D |
| And above the pine crowned height | D |
| Clouds of twilight rosy white | D |
| Build their towers of fire | C |
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| II | E |
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| 'Mid the rushes there that swing | F |
| Flowering flags where voices sing | F |
| When low winds are murmuring | F |
| Murmuring to stars that glitter | C |
| Blossom white with purple locks | G |
| Underneath the stars' still flocks | G |
| In the dusky waves she rocks | G |
| Rocks and all the landscape mocks | G |
| With a song most sweet and bitter | C |
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| III | E |
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| Soft it sounds at first as dreams | H |
| Filled with tears that fall in streams | H |
| Then it soars until it seems | H |
| Beauty's very self hath spoken | I |
| And the woods grow silent quite | D |
| Stars wax faint and flowers turn white | D |
| And the nightingales that light | D |
| Near or hear her through the night | D |
| Die their hearts with longing broken | I |
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| IV | J |
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| Dark dim and sad o'er mournful lands | K |
| White throated stars heaped in her hands | K |
| Like wildwood buds the Twilight stands | K |
| The Twilight dreaming lingers | L |
| Listening where the Limnad sings | M |
| Witcheries whose beauty brings | M |
| A great moon from hidden springs | M |
| Pale with amorous quiverings | M |
| Feet of fire and silvery fingers | M |
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| V | J |
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| In the vales Auloniads | M |
| On the mountains Oreads | M |
| On the leas Leimoniads | M |
| Naked as the stars that glisten | I |
| Pan the Satyrs Dryades | M |
| Fountain lovely Naiades | M |
| Foam lipped Oceanides | M |
| Breathless 'mid their seas and trees | M |
| Stay and stop and lean and listen | I |
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| VI | J |
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| Large eyed Siren like she stands | M |
| In the lake or on its sands | M |
| And with rapture from the hands | M |
| Of the Night some stars are shaken | I |
| To her song the rushes swing | F |
| Lilies nod and ripples ring | F |
| Lost in helpless listening | F |
| These will wake that hear her sing | F |
| But one mortal will not waken | I |
Madison Julius Cawein
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