The Serenade Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMA NOPQRSOTU| Innocent dreams be thine The silver night | A |
| Is a fit curtain for thy lovely sleep | B |
| The stars keep watch above thee and the moon | C |
| Sits like a brooding spirit up in Heaven | D |
| Ruling the night's deep influences and life | E |
| Hath a hushed pulse and the suspended leaves | F |
| Sleep with their whisperings as if the dew | G |
| Were a soft finger on the lip of sound | H |
| Innocent dreams be thine thy heart sends up | I |
| Its thoughts of purity like pearly bells | J |
| Rising in crystal fountains and the sin | K |
| That thou hast seen by day will like a shade | L |
| Pass from thy memory as if the pure | M |
| Had an unconscious ministry by night | A |
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| Midnight and now for music Would I were | N |
| A sound that I might steal upon thy dreams | O |
| And like the breathing of my flute distil | P |
| Sweetly upon thy senses Softly boy | Q |
| Breathe the low cadences as if the words | R |
| Fainted upon thy lip I would not break | S |
| Her slumber quite but only as she dreams | O |
| Witch the lull'd sense till she believes she hears | T |
| Celestial melody | U |
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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