The Mermaid Poem Rhyme Scheme

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The moon in the East is glowing	A
I sit by the moaning sea	B
The mists down the sea are blowing	A
Down the sea all dewily	C
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The sands at my feet are shaking	A
The stars in the sky are wan	D
The mists for the shore are making	A
With a glimmer drifting on	D
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From the mist comes a song sweet wailing	A
In the voice of a love lorn maid	E
And I hear her gown soft trailing	A
As she doth lightly wade	E
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The night hangs pale above me	B
Upon her starry throne	F
And I know the maid doth love me	B
Who maketh such sweet moan	F
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From out the mist comes tripping	A
A Mermaiden full fair	G
Across the white sea skipping	A
With locks of tawny hair	G
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Her locks with sea ooze dripping	A
She wrings with a snowy hand	H
Her dress is thinly clipping	A
Two breasts which perfect stand	H
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Oh she was fair as the heaven	I
On an autumnal eve	J
And my love to her was given	I
When I saw how she did grieve	J
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Amort o'er the sea came speeding	A
This sea sprite samite clad	K
And my heart for love was bleeding	A
But its beating I forbade	E
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On the strand where the sand was rocking	A
She stood and sang an air	G
And the winds in her hair kept locking	A
Their fingers cool and bare	G
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Soft in her arms did she fold me	B
While sweet and low she moaned	L
Her love and her grief she told me	B
And the ocean sighed and groaned	L
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But I stilled my heart's wild beating	A
For I knew her love was dim	M
Full coldly received her greeting	A
Tho' my life burnt in each limb	M
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In my ear right sweet she was sighing	A
With the voice of the pink veined shells	N
Her arms 'round my neck kept tying	A
And gazed in mine eyes' deep wells	N
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With her kisses cold did she woo me	B
But I dimmed my heart's wild beat	O
With the stars of her eyes did she sue me	B
But their passion did mine defeat	O
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With the cloud of her sea dipped tresses	P
She veiled her beautiful face	Q
And oh how I longed for her kisses	R
And sighed for her soft embrace	Q
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But out in the mist she went wailing	A
When the dawn besilvered the night	S
With her robes of samite trailing	A
In the foam flowers sad and white	S
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Like a spirit grieved went moaning	A
In a twilight over the sea	B
And it seemed the night was groaning	A
And my heart beat wild in me	B
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But I hushed my heart's fierce beating	A
For a Mermaid false was she	B
Yet I sighed at her faintly fleeting	A
Across the dim dark sea	B
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The moon all withered is glowing	A
The mist and she are gone	T
My heart to ice is growing	A
And I sob at the coming dawn	T

Madison Julius Cawein

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