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 EQEQAll night I lay upon the rocks | A |
And now the dawn comes up this way | B |
One great star trembling in her locks | A |
Of rosy ray | B |
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I can not tell the things I've seen | C |
The things I've heard I dare not speak | D |
The dawn is breaking gold and green | C |
O'er vale and peak | D |
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My soul hath kept its tryst again | E |
With her as once in ages past | F |
In that lost life I know not when | E |
Which was my last | F |
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When she was Dryad I was Faun | E |
And lone we loved in Tempe's Vale | G |
Where once we saw Endymion | E |
Pass passion pale | G |
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Where once we saw him clasp and meet | H |
Among the pines with kiss on kiss | I |
Moon breasted and most heavenly sweet | H |
White Artemis | I |
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Where often Bacchus borne we heard | J |
The M nad shout wild revelling | D |
And filled with witchraft past all word | J |
The Limnad sing | D |
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Bloom bodied 'mid the twilight trees | I |
We saw the Oread who shone | E |
Fair as a form Praxiteles | I |
Carved out of stone | E |
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And oft goat footed in a glade | K |
We marked the Satyrs dance and great | L |
Man muscled like the oaks that shade | K |
Dodona's gate | L |
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Fierce Centaurs hoof the torrent's bank | D |
With wind swept manes or leap the crag | D |
While swift the arrow in its flank | D |
Swept by the stag | D |
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And minnow white the Naiad there | M |
We watched foam shouldered in her stream | N |
Wringing the moisture from her hair | M |
Of emerald gleam | N |
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We saw the oak unclose and brown | E |
Sap scented from its door of bark | D |
The Hamadryad's form step down | E |
Or crouching dark | D |
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Within the oak's deep heart we felt | O |
Her eyes that pierced the fibrous gloom | P |
Her breath that was the nard we smelt | O |
The wild perfume | P |
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There is no flower that opens glad | Q |
Soft eyes of dawn and sunset hue | R |
As fair as the Limoniad | Q |
We saw there too | Q |
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That flow'r divinity rose born | E |
Of sunlight and white dew whose blood | Q |
Is fragrance and whose heart of morn | E |
A crimson bud | Q |
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There is no star that rises white | Q |
To tip toe down the deeps of dusk | D |
Sweet as the moony Nymphs of Night | Q |
With breasts of musk | D |
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We met among the mystery | S |
And hush of forests where afar | T |
We watched their hearts beat glimmeringly | G |
Each heart a star | T |
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There is no beam that rays the marge | U |
Of mist that trails from cape to cape | V |
From panther haunted gorge to gorge | W |
Bright as the shape | V |
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Of her the one Auloniad | Q |
That born of wind and grassy gleams | I |
Silvered upon our sight dim clad | Q |
In foam of streams | I |
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All all of these I saw again | E |
Or dreamed I saw as there ah me | S |
Upon the cliffs above the plain | E |
In Thessaly | G |
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I lay while Mount Olympus helmed | Q |
Its brow with moon effulgence deep | X |
And far below vague overwhelmed | Q |
With reedy sleep | X |
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Peneus flowed and murmuring sighed | Q |
Meseemed for its dead gods whose ghosts | I |
Through its dark forests seemed to glide | Q |
In shadowy hosts | I |
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'Mid whose pale shapes again I spoke | D |
With her my soul as I divine | E |
Dim 'neath some gnarled Olympian oak | D |
Or Ossan pine | E |
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Till down the slopes of heaven came | Y |
Those daughters of the dawn the Hours | I |
Clothed on with raiment blue of flame | Y |
And crowned with flowers | I |
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When she with whom my soul once more | Z |
Had trysted limbed of light and air | M |
Whom to my breast as oft of yore | Z |
In Tempe there | M |
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When she was Dryad I was Faun | E |
I clasped and held and pressed and kissed | Q |
Within my arms as broke the dawn | E |
Became a mist | Q |
Madison Julius Cawein
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