Album Verses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD AEAE FEFE GEGE HIHI JBJB| WHEN Eve had led her lord away | A |
| And Cain had killed his brother | B |
| The stars and flowers the poets say | A |
| Agreed with one another | B |
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| To cheat the cunning tempter's art | C |
| And teach the race its duty | D |
| By keeping on its wicked heart | C |
| Their eyes of light and beauty | D |
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| A million sleepless lids they say | A |
| Will be at least a warning | E |
| And so the flowers would watch by day | A |
| The stars from eve to morning | E |
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| On hill and prairie field and lawn | F |
| Their dewy eyes upturning | E |
| The flowers still watch from reddening dawn | F |
| Till western skies are burning | E |
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| Alas each hour of daylight tells | G |
| A tale of shame so crushing | E |
| That some turn white as sea bleached shells | G |
| And some are always blushing | E |
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| But when the patient stars look down | H |
| On all their light discovers | I |
| The traitor's smile the murderer's frown | H |
| The lips of lying lovers | I |
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| They try to shut their saddening eyes | J |
| And in the vain endeavor | B |
| We see them twinkling in the skies | J |
| And so they wink forever | B |
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