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 HHHHCALL it to mind O my love | A |
Dear were your eyes as the day | B |
Bright as the day and the sky | C |
Like the stream of gold and the sky above | A |
Dear were your eyes in the grey | B |
We have lived my love O we have lived my love | A |
Now along the silent river azure | D |
Through the sky's inverted image | E |
Softly swam the boat that bore our love | A |
Swiftly ran the shallow of our love | A |
Through the heaven's inverted image | E |
In the reedy mazes round the river | D |
See along the silent river | D |
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See of old the lover's shallop steer | F |
Berried brake and reedy island | G |
Heaven below and only heaven above | A |
Through the sky's inverted image | E |
Swiftly swam the boat that bore our love | A |
Berried brake and reedy island | G |
Mirrored flower and shallop gliding by | C |
All the earth and all the sky were ours | H |
Silent sat the wafted lovers | H |
Bound with grain and watched by all the sky | C |
Hand to hand and eye to eye | C |
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Days of April airs of Eden | I |
Call to mind how bright the vanished angel hours | H |
Golden hours of evening | J |
When our boat drew homeward filled with flowers | H |
O darling call them to mind love the past my love | A |
Days of April airs of Eden | I |
How the glory died through golden hours | H |
And the shining moon arising | J |
How the boat drew homeward filled with flowers | H |
Age and winter close us slowly in | K |
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Level river cloudless heaven | I |
Islanded reed mazes silver weirs | H |
How the silent boat with silver | D |
Threads the inverted forest as she goes | H |
Broke the trembling green of mirrored trees | H |
O remember and remember | D |
How the berries hung in garlands | H |
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Still in the river see the shallop floats | H |
Hark Chimes the falling oar | L |
Still in the mind | M |
Hark to the song of the past | N |
Dream and they pass in their dreams | H |
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Those that loved of yore O those that loved of yore | L |
Hark through the stillness O darling hark | O |
Through it all the ear of the mind | M |
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Knows the boat of love Hark | O |
Chimes the falling oar | L |
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O half in vain they grew old | P |
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Now the halcyon days are over | D |
Age and winter close us slowly round | Q |
And these sounds at fall of even | K |
Dim the sight and muffle all the sound | Q |
And at the married fireside sleep of soul and sleep of fancy | H |
Joan and Darby | H |
Silence of the world without a sound | Q |
And beside the winter faggot | R |
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Joan and Darby sit and dose and dream and wake | S |
Dream they hear the flowing singing river | D |
See the berries in the island brake | S |
Dream they hear the weir | T |
See the gliding shallop mar the stream | U |
Hark in your dreams do you hear | T |
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Snow has filled the drifted forest | V |
Ice has bound the stream | U |
Frost has bound our flowing river | D |
Snow has whitened all our island brake | S |
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Berried brake and reedy island | G |
Heaven below and only heaven above azure | D |
Through the sky's inverted image | E |
Safely swam the boat that bore our love | A |
Dear were your eyes as the day | B |
Bright ran the stream bright hung the sky above | A |
Days of April airs of Eden | I |
How the glory died through golden hours | H |
And the shining moon arising | J |
How the boat drew homeward filled with flowers | H |
Bright were your eyes in the night | W |
We have lived my love | A |
O we have loved my love | A |
Now the days are over | D |
Age and winter close us slowly round | Q |
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Vainly time departs and vainly | H |
Age and winter come and close us round | Q |
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Hark the river's long continuous sound | Q |
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Hear the river ripples in the reeds | H |
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Lo in dreams they see their shallop | X |
Run the lilies down and drown the weeds | H |
Mid the sound of crackling faggots | H |
So in dreams the new created | Y |
Happy past returns to day recedes | H |
And they hear once more | L |
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From the old years | H |
Yesterday returns to day recedes | H |
And they hear with aged hearing warbles | H |
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Love's own river ripple in the weeds | H |
And again the lover's shallop | X |
Lo the shallop sheds the streaming weeds | H |
And afar in foreign countries | H |
In the ears of aged lovers | H |
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And again in winter evens | H |
Starred with lilies with stirring weeds | H |
In these ears of aged lovers | H |
Love's own river ripples in the reeds | H |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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