With A Guitar, To Jane Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEFGGHHIIJJKKBB LMNNKOPPBBHHQQRRSSTT DD UUVVWXYYZZBBFEA2A2B2 B2JJZZZZZZZZZZIIC2C2 D2D2B2B2E2E2LLD2D2B2 B2JJAriel to Miranda Take | A |
This slave of music for the sake | A |
Of him who is the slave of thee | B |
And teach it all the harmony | B |
In which thou canst and only thou | C |
Make the delighted spirit glow | D |
Till joy denies itself again | E |
And too intense is turned to pain | F |
For by permission and command | G |
Of thine own Prince Ferdinand | G |
Poor Ariel sends this silent token | H |
Of more than ever can be spoken | H |
Your guardian spirit Ariel who | I |
From life to life must still pursue | I |
Your happiness for thus alone | J |
Can Ariel ever find his own | J |
From Prospero's enchanted cell | K |
As the mighty verses tell | K |
To the throne of Naples he | B |
Lit you o'er the trackless sea | B |
Flitting on your prow before | L |
Like a living meteor | M |
When you die the silent Moon | N |
In her interlunar swoon | N |
Is not sadder in her cell | K |
Than deserted Ariel | O |
When you live again on earth | P |
Like an unseen Star of birth | P |
Ariel guides you o'er the sea | B |
Of life from your nativity | B |
Many changes have been run | H |
Since Ferdinand and you begun | H |
Your course of love and Ariel still | Q |
Has tracked your steps and served your will | Q |
Now in humbler happier lot | R |
This is all remembered not | R |
And now alas the poor sprite is | S |
Imprisoned for some fault of his | S |
In a body like a grave | T |
From you he only dares to crave | T |
For his service and his sorrow | D |
A smile today a song tomorrow | D |
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The artist who this idol wrought | U |
To echo all harmonious thought | U |
Felled a tree while on the steep | V |
The woods were in their winter sleep | V |
Rocked in that repose divine | W |
On the wind swept Apennine | X |
And dreaming some of Autumn past | Y |
And some of Spring approaching fast | Y |
And some of April buds and showers | Z |
And some of songs in July bowers | Z |
And all of love and so this tree | B |
O that such our death may be | B |
Died in sleep and felt no pain | F |
To live in happier form again | E |
From which beneath Heaven's fairest star | A2 |
The artist wrought this loved Guitar | A2 |
And taught it justly to reply | B2 |
To all who question skilfully | B2 |
In language gentle as thine own | J |
Whispering in enamoured tone | J |
Sweet oracles of woods and dells | Z |
And summer winds in sylvan cells | Z |
For it had learnt all harmonies | Z |
Of the plains and of the skies | Z |
Of the forests and the mountains | Z |
And the many voiced fountains | Z |
The clearest echoes of the hills | Z |
The softest notes of falling rills | Z |
The melodies of birds and bees | Z |
The murmuring of summer seas | Z |
And pattering rain and breathing dew | I |
And airs of evening and it knew | I |
That seldom heard mysterious sound | C2 |
Which driven on its diurnal round | C2 |
As it floats through boundless day | D2 |
Our world enkindles on its way | D2 |
All this it knows but will not tell | B2 |
To those who cannot question well | B2 |
The Spirit that inhabits it | E2 |
It talks according to the wit | E2 |
Of its companions and no more | L |
Is heard than has been felt before | L |
By those who tempt it to betray | D2 |
These secrets of an elder day | D2 |
But sweetly as its answers will | B2 |
Flatter hands of perfect skill | B2 |
It keeps its highest holiest tone | J |
For one beloved Friend alone | J |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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