Give Ear Unto The Gentle Lay Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA DAEF AGGA HIIJ EAAE AJJA AKKA| Give ear unto the gentle lay | A |
| That's only sad that it may please | B |
| It is discreet and light it is | C |
| A whiff of wind o'er buds in May | A |
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| The voice was known to you and dear | D |
| But it is muffled latterly | A |
| As is a widow still as she | E |
| It doth its sorrow proudly bear | F |
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| And through the sweeping mourning veil | A |
| That in the gusts of Autumn blows | G |
| Unto the heart that wonders shows | G |
| Truth like a star now flash now fail | A |
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| It says the voice you knew again | H |
| That kindness goodness is our life | I |
| And that of envy hatred strife | I |
| When death is come shall naught remain | J |
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| It says how glorious to be | E |
| Like children without more delay | A |
| The tender gladness it doth say | A |
| Of peace not bought with victory | E |
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| Accept the voice ah hear the whole | A |
| Of its persistent artless strain | J |
| Naught so can soothe a soul's own pain | J |
| As making glad another soul | A |
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| It pines in bonds but for a day | A |
| The soul that without murmur bears | K |
| How unperplexed how free it fares | K |
| Oh listen to the gentle lay | A |
Paul Verlaine
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