Merlin's Isle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCDDB AEFAEEGGGE AFAFFHII| O I went down to Merlin's Isle | A |
| And when that I had found it | B |
| I kneeled me down a little while | A |
| And praised the peace that bound it | B |
| There were no seas around it | B |
| But the full tide of turf in flood | C |
| To the rim of the berried hawthorn wood | D |
| And a dew pond where the dear stars stood | D |
| Too deep for me to sound it | B |
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| O I went down to Merlin's Isle | A |
| And there I soon did learn a | E |
| The winds they did implore me | F |
| How sweet two beech brown eyes may smile | A |
| Among the maiden fern a | E |
| My poor heart took a turn a | E |
| In a warm wind the whitebeam foam | G |
| Ran quick along the silvering loam | G |
| And I was young and far from home | G |
| As you may well discern a | E |
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| O I went home from Merlin's Isle | A |
| My dear was there before me | F |
| In the moonshine by the shepherd's stile | A |
| A kind of grief came o'er me | F |
| The winds they did implore me | F |
| 'And come ' they said but I said 'Nay | H |
| For the honey star hath closed the day | I |
| And love that borrowed my soul away | I |
| Sweet love shall now restore me ' | - |
Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall
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