The Water-nymph And The Boy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BCDCEFGHBIJI KLALMNONNPNMNQNAPGPE PHPHRHRSR| I flung me round him | A |
| I drew him under | B |
| I clung I drown'd him | A |
| My own white wonder | B |
| - | |
| Father and mother | B |
| Weeping and wild | C |
| Came to the forest | D |
| Calling the child | C |
| Came from the palace | E |
| Down to the pool | F |
| Calling my darling | G |
| My beautiful | H |
| Under the water | B |
| Cold and so pale | I |
| Could it be love made | J |
| Beauty to fail | I |
| - | |
| Ah me for mortals | K |
| In a few moons | L |
| If I had left him | A |
| After some Junes | L |
| He would have faded | M |
| Faded away | N |
| He the young monarch whom | O |
| All would obey | N |
| Fairer than day | N |
| Alien to springtime | P |
| Joyless and gray | N |
| He would have faded | M |
| Faded away | N |
| Moving a mockery | Q |
| Scorn'd of the day | N |
| Now I have taken him | A |
| All in his prime | P |
| Saved from slow poisoning | G |
| Pitiless Time | P |
| Fill'd with his happiness | E |
| One with the prime | P |
| Saved from the cruel | H |
| Dishonour of Time | P |
| Laid him my beautiful | H |
| Laid him to rest | R |
| Loving adorable | H |
| Softly to rest | R |
| Here in my crystalline | S |
| Here in my breast | R |
Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel
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