Serenade (for Music) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EAEAFGFG HAHAIJIJ HJHJFKFK HLHLFKFKThe western wind is blowing fair | A |
Across the dark AEgean sea | B |
And at the secret marble stair | A |
My Tyrian galley waits for thee | B |
Come down the purple sail is spread | C |
The watchman sleeps within the town | D |
O leave thy lily flowered bed | C |
O Lady mine come down come down | D |
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She will not come I know her well | E |
Of lover's vows she hath no care | A |
And little good a man can tell | E |
Of one so cruel and so fair | A |
True love is but a woman's toy | F |
They never know the lover's pain | G |
And I who loved as loves a boy | F |
Must love in vain must love in vain | G |
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O noble pilot tell me true | H |
Is that the sheen of golden hair | A |
Or is it but the tangled dew | H |
That binds the passion flowers there | A |
Good sailor come and tell me now | I |
Is that my Lady's lily hand | J |
Or is it but the gleaming prow | I |
Or is it but the silver sand | J |
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No no 'tis not the tangled dew | H |
'Tis not the silver fretted sand | J |
It is my own dear Lady true | H |
With golden hair and lily hand | J |
O noble pilot steer for Troy | F |
Good sailor ply the labouring oar | K |
This is the Queen of life and joy | F |
Whom we must bear from Grecian shore | K |
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The waning sky grows faint and blue | H |
It wants an hour still of day | L |
Aboard aboard my gallant crew | H |
O Lady mine away away | L |
O noble pilot steer for Troy | F |
Good sailor ply the labouring oar | K |
O loved as only loves a boy | F |
O loved for ever evermore | K |
Oscar Wilde
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