The Vale Of Tempe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF EGEG HIHI JDJD IEIE KLKL DDDD MNMN EDED OPOP QRQQ EQEQ QDQD STGT UVWV QIQI ESEG QXQX QIQI DEDE YIYI ZMZM EQEQ

All night I lay upon the rocksA
And now the dawn comes up this wayB
One great star trembling in her locksA
Of rosy rayB
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I can not tell the things I've seenC
The things I've heard I dare not speakD
The dawn is breaking gold and greenC
O'er vale and peakD
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My soul hath kept its tryst againE
With her as once in ages pastF
In that lost life I know not whenE
Which was my lastF
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When she was Dryad I was FaunE
And lone we loved in Tempe's ValeG
Where once we saw EndymionE
Pass passion paleG
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Where once we saw him clasp and meetH
Among the pines with kiss on kissI
Moon breasted and most heavenly sweetH
White ArtemisI
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Where often Bacchus borne we heardJ
The M nad shout wild revellingD
And filled with witchraft past all wordJ
The Limnad singD
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Bloom bodied 'mid the twilight treesI
We saw the Oread who shoneE
Fair as a form PraxitelesI
Carved out of stoneE
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And oft goat footed in a gladeK
We marked the Satyrs dance and greatL
Man muscled like the oaks that shadeK
Dodona's gateL
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Fierce Centaurs hoof the torrent's bankD
With wind swept manes or leap the cragD
While swift the arrow in its flankD
Swept by the stagD
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And minnow white the Naiad thereM
We watched foam shouldered in her streamN
Wringing the moisture from her hairM
Of emerald gleamN
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We saw the oak unclose and brownE
Sap scented from its door of barkD
The Hamadryad's form step downE
Or crouching darkD
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Within the oak's deep heart we feltO
Her eyes that pierced the fibrous gloomP
Her breath that was the nard we smeltO
The wild perfumeP
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There is no flower that opens gladQ
Soft eyes of dawn and sunset hueR
As fair as the LimoniadQ
We saw there tooQ
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That flow'r divinity rose bornE
Of sunlight and white dew whose bloodQ
Is fragrance and whose heart of mornE
A crimson budQ
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There is no star that rises whiteQ
To tip toe down the deeps of duskD
Sweet as the moony Nymphs of NightQ
With breasts of muskD
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We met among the mysteryS
And hush of forests where afarT
We watched their hearts beat glimmeringlyG
Each heart a starT
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There is no beam that rays the margeU
Of mist that trails from cape to capeV
From panther haunted gorge to gorgeW
Bright as the shapeV
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Of her the one AuloniadQ
That born of wind and grassy gleamsI
Silvered upon our sight dim cladQ
In foam of streamsI
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All all of these I saw againE
Or dreamed I saw as there ah meS
Upon the cliffs above the plainE
In ThessalyG
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I lay while Mount Olympus helmedQ
Its brow with moon effulgence deepX
And far below vague overwhelmedQ
With reedy sleepX
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Peneus flowed and murmuring sighedQ
Meseemed for its dead gods whose ghostsI
Through its dark forests seemed to glideQ
In shadowy hostsI
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'Mid whose pale shapes again I spokeD
With her my soul as I divineE
Dim 'neath some gnarled Olympian oakD
Or Ossan pineE
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Till down the slopes of heaven cameY
Those daughters of the dawn the HoursI
Clothed on with raiment blue of flameY
And crowned with flowersI
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When she with whom my soul once moreZ
Had trysted limbed of light and airM
Whom to my breast as oft of yoreZ
In Tempe thereM
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When she was Dryad I was FaunE
I clasped and held and pressed and kissedQ
Within my arms as broke the dawnE
Became a mistQ

Madison Julius Cawein



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