Nora: A Serenade Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCD CDECEC FGFGBCHC| Ah Nora my Nora the light fades away | A |
| While Night like a spirit steals up o'er the hills | B |
| The thrush from his tree where he chanted all day | A |
| No longer his music in ecstasy trills | B |
| Then Nora be near me thy presence doth cheer me | C |
| Thine eye hath a gleam that is truer than gold | D |
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| I cannot but love thee so do not reprove me | C |
| If the strength of my passion should make me too bold | D |
| Nora pride of my heart | E |
| Rosy cheeks cherry lips sparkling with glee | C |
| Wake from thy slumbers wherever thou art | E |
| Wake from thy slumbers to me | C |
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| Ah Nora my Nora there 's love in the air | F |
| It stirs in the numbers that thrill in my brain | G |
| Oh sweet sweet is love with its mingling of care | F |
| Though joy travels only a step before pain | G |
| Be roused from thy slumbers and list to my numbers | B |
| My heart is poured out in this song unto thee | C |
| Oh be thou not cruel thou treasure thou jewel | H |
| Turn thine ear to my pleading and hearken to me | C |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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