The Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGHH IIJJKKLI MMNOPPQQ| My soul lost in the music's mist | A |
| Roamed rapt 'neath skies of amethyst | A |
| The cheerless streets grew summer meads | B |
| The Son of Phoebus spurred his steeds | B |
| And wand'ring down the mazy tune | C |
| December lost its way in June | C |
| While from a verdant vale I heard | D |
| The piping of a love lorn bird | D |
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| A something in the tender strain | E |
| Revived an old long conquered pain | E |
| And as in depths of many seas | F |
| My heart was drowned in memories | F |
| The tears came welling to my eyes | G |
| Nor could I ask it otherwise | G |
| For oh a sweetness seems to last | H |
| Amid the dregs of sorrows past | H |
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| It stirred a chord that here of late | I |
| I 'd grown to think could not vibrate | I |
| It brought me back the trust of youth | J |
| The world again was joy and truth | J |
| And Avice blooming like a bride | K |
| Once more stood trusting at my side | K |
| But still with bosom desolate | L |
| The lorn bird sang to find his mate | I |
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| Then there are trees and lights and stars | M |
| The silv'ry tinkle of guitars | M |
| And throbs again as throbbed that waltz | N |
| Before I knew that hearts were false | O |
| Then like a cold wave on a shore | P |
| Comes silence and she sings no more | P |
| I wake I breathe I think again | Q |
| And walk the sordid ways of men | Q |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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