Serenade Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EAEAFGFG HAHAIJIJ HJHJFKFK HLHLFKFK| THE western wind is blowing fair | A |
| Across the dark gean 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 |
| - | |
| 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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