Air Of Diabelli's Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCABADEAAEDD FGAEAGCHHCC IHJHAIHJHK IHDHHDH HLMNH LOM OL P DQKQHHQR SDSTUT VUDS GDEABAIHJHWAADQ HQ Q H XHHYHL HHH HXHHH HHHH

CALL it to mind O my loveA
Dear were your eyes as the dayB
Bright as the day and the skyC
Like the stream of gold and the sky aboveA
Dear were your eyes in the greyB
We have lived my love O we have lived my loveA
Now along the silent river azureD
Through the sky's inverted imageE
Softly swam the boat that bore our loveA
Swiftly ran the shallow of our loveA
Through the heaven's inverted imageE
In the reedy mazes round the riverD
See along the silent riverD
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See of old the lover's shallop steerF
Berried brake and reedy islandG
Heaven below and only heaven aboveA
Through the sky's inverted imageE
Swiftly swam the boat that bore our loveA
Berried brake and reedy islandG
Mirrored flower and shallop gliding byC
All the earth and all the sky were oursH
Silent sat the wafted loversH
Bound with grain and watched by all the skyC
Hand to hand and eye to eyeC
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Days of April airs of EdenI
Call to mind how bright the vanished angel hoursH
Golden hours of eveningJ
When our boat drew homeward filled with flowersH
O darling call them to mind love the past my loveA
Days of April airs of EdenI
How the glory died through golden hoursH
And the shining moon arisingJ
How the boat drew homeward filled with flowersH
Age and winter close us slowly inK
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Level river cloudless heavenI
Islanded reed mazes silver weirsH
How the silent boat with silverD
Threads the inverted forest as she goesH
Broke the trembling green of mirrored treesH
O remember and rememberD
How the berries hung in garlandsH
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Still in the river see the shallop floatsH
Hark Chimes the falling oarL
Still in the mindM
Hark to the song of the pastN
Dream and they pass in their dreamsH
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Those that loved of yore O those that loved of yoreL
Hark through the stillness O darling harkO
Through it all the ear of the mindM
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Knows the boat of love HarkO
Chimes the falling oarL
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O half in vain they grew oldP
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Now the halcyon days are overD
Age and winter close us slowly roundQ
And these sounds at fall of evenK
Dim the sight and muffle all the soundQ
And at the married fireside sleep of soul and sleep of fancyH
Joan and DarbyH
Silence of the world without a soundQ
And beside the winter faggotR
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Joan and Darby sit and dose and dream and wakeS
Dream they hear the flowing singing riverD
See the berries in the island brakeS
Dream they hear the weirT
See the gliding shallop mar the streamU
Hark in your dreams do you hearT
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Snow has filled the drifted forestV
Ice has bound the streamU
Frost has bound our flowing riverD
Snow has whitened all our island brakeS
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Berried brake and reedy islandG
Heaven below and only heaven above azureD
Through the sky's inverted imageE
Safely swam the boat that bore our loveA
Dear were your eyes as the dayB
Bright ran the stream bright hung the sky aboveA
Days of April airs of EdenI
How the glory died through golden hoursH
And the shining moon arisingJ
How the boat drew homeward filled with flowersH
Bright were your eyes in the nightW
We have lived my loveA
O we have loved my loveA
Now the days are overD
Age and winter close us slowly roundQ
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Vainly time departs and vainlyH
Age and winter come and close us roundQ
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Hark the river's long continuous soundQ
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Hear the river ripples in the reedsH
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Lo in dreams they see their shallopX
Run the lilies down and drown the weedsH
Mid the sound of crackling faggotsH
So in dreams the new createdY
Happy past returns to day recedesH
And they hear once moreL
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From the old yearsH
Yesterday returns to day recedesH
And they hear with aged hearing warblesH
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Love's own river ripple in the weedsH
And again the lover's shallopX
Lo the shallop sheds the streaming weedsH
And afar in foreign countriesH
In the ears of aged loversH
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And again in winter evensH
Starred with lilies with stirring weedsH
In these ears of aged loversH
Love's own river ripples in the reedsH

Robert Louis Stevenson



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