To-- Oh! There Are Spirits Of The Air Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDD EFEFGG HAIAJJ KLKLMM NONOLL PQPQRR| Dakrysi Dioisw Potmon Apotmon | A |
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| Oh there are spirits of the air | B |
| And genii of the evening breeze | C |
| And gentle ghosts with eyes as fair | B |
| As star beams among twilight trees | C |
| Such lovely ministers to meet | D |
| Oft hast thou turned from men thy lonely feet | D |
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| With mountain winds and babbling springs | E |
| And moonlight seas that are the voice | F |
| Of these inexplicable things | E |
| Thou didst hold commune and rejoice | F |
| When they did answer thee but they | G |
| Cast like a worthless boon thy love away | G |
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| And thou hast sought in starry eyes | H |
| Beams that were never meant for thine | A |
| Another s wealth tame sacrifice | I |
| To a fond faith still dost thou pine | A |
| Still dost thou hope that greeting hands | J |
| Voice looks or lips may answer thy demands | J |
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| Ah wherefore didst thou build thine hope | K |
| On the false earth s inconstancy | L |
| Did thine own mind afford no scope | K |
| Of love or moving thoughts to thee | L |
| That natural scenes or human smiles | M |
| Could steal the power to wind thee in their wiles | M |
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| Yes all the faithless smiles are fled | N |
| Whose falsehood left thee broken hearted | O |
| The glory of the moon is dead | N |
| Night s ghosts and dreams have now departed | O |
| Thine own soul still is true to thee | L |
| But changed to a foul fiend through misery | L |
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| This fiend whose ghastly presence ever | P |
| Beside thee like thy shadow hangs | Q |
| Dream not to chase the mad endeavour | P |
| Would scourge thee to severer pangs | Q |
| Be as thou art Thy settled fate | R |
| Dark as it is all change would aggravate | R |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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