The Naiads' Music Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCAABB DDEEFFBB FGAAHHIIJJGGBB KKFFEEFFBB EEFFLLFFAAGGBB| From 'A Faun's Holiday' | A |
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| Come ye sorrowful and steep | B |
| Your tired brows in a nectarous sleep | B |
| For our kisses lightlier run | C |
| Than the traceries of the sun | C |
| By the lolling water cast | A |
| Up grey precipices vast | A |
| Lifting smooth and warm and steep | B |
| Out of the palely shimmering deep | B |
| - | |
| Come ye sorrowful and take | D |
| Kisses that are but half awake | D |
| For here are eyes O softer far | E |
| Than the blossom of the star | E |
| Upon the mothy twilit waters | F |
| And here are mouths whose gentle laughters | F |
| Are but the echoes of the deep | B |
| Laughing and murmuring in its sleep | B |
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| Come ye sorrowful and see | F |
| The raindrops flaming goldenly | G |
| On the stream's eddies overhead | A |
| And dragonflies with drops of red | A |
| In the crisp surface of each wing | H |
| Threading slant rains that flash and sing | H |
| Or under the water lily's cup | I |
| From darkling depths roll slowly up | I |
| The bronze flanks of an ancient bream | J |
| Into the hot sun's shattered beam | J |
| Or over a sunk tree's bubbled hole | G |
| The perch stream in a golden shoal | G |
| Come ye sorrowful our deep | B |
| Holds dreams lovelier than sleep | B |
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| But if ye sons of Sorrow come | K |
| Only wishing to be numb | K |
| Our eyes are sad as bluebell posies | F |
| Our breasts are soft as silken roses | F |
| And our hands are tenderer | E |
| Than the breaths that scarce can stir | E |
| The sunlit eglantine that is | F |
| Murmurous with hidden bees | F |
| Come ye sorrowful and steep | B |
| Your tired brows in a nectarous sleep | B |
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| Come ye sorrowful for here | E |
| No voices sound but fond and clear | E |
| Of mouths as lorn as is the rose | F |
| That under water doth disclose | F |
| Amid her crimson petals torn | L |
| A heart as golden as the morn | L |
| And here are tresses languorous | F |
| As the weeds wander over us | F |
| And brows as holy and as bland | A |
| As the honey coloured sand | A |
| Lying sun entranced below | G |
| The lazy water's limpid flow | G |
| Come ye sorrowful and steep | B |
| Your tired brows in a nectarous sleep | B |
Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols
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