Clair De Lune [english] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEFYour soul is as a moonlit landscape fair | A |
Peopled with maskers delicate and dim | B |
That play on lutes and dance and have an air | A |
Of being sad in their fantastic trim | B |
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The while they celebrate in minor strain | C |
Triumphant love effective enterprise | D |
They have an air of knowing all is vain | C |
And through the quiet moonlight their songs rise | D |
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The melancholy moonlight sweet and lone | E |
That makes to dream the birds upon the tree | F |
And in their polished basins of white stone | E |
The fountains tall to sob with ecstasy | F |
Paul Verlaine
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