Lewti, Or The Circassian Love-chaunt Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BCBCDDEEAA DADDAAAFAFAAA GHGGHIJIJAIAAA IIAIKAKAAAA LLLLAALHLHAA MMLALAAAANO BEBCAAAA| At midnight by the stream I roved | A |
| To forget the form I loved | A |
| Image of Lewti from my mind | A |
| Depart for Lewti is not kind | A |
| - | |
| The Moon was high the moonlight gleam | B |
| And the shadow of a star | C |
| Heaved upon Tamaha's stream | B |
| But the rock shone brighter far | C |
| The rock half sheltered from my view | D |
| By pendent boughs of tressy yew | D |
| So shines my Lewti's forehead fair | E |
| Gleaming through her sable hair | E |
| Image of Lewti from my mind | A |
| Depart for Lewti is not kind | A |
| - | |
| I saw a cloud of palest hue | D |
| Onward to the moon it passed | A |
| Still brighter and more bright it grew | D |
| With floating colours not a few | D |
| Till it reach'd the moon at last | A |
| Then the cloud was wholly bright | A |
| With a rich and amber light | A |
| And so with many a hope I seek | F |
| And with such joy I find my Lewti | A |
| And even so my pale wan cheek | F |
| Drinks in as deep a flush of beauty | A |
| Nay treacherous image leave my mind | A |
| If Lewti never will be kind | A |
| - | |
| The little cloud it floats away | G |
| Away it goes away so soon | H |
| Alas it has no power to stay | G |
| Its hues are dim its hues are grey | G |
| Away it passes from the moon | H |
| How mournfully it seems to fly | I |
| Ever fading more and more | J |
| To joyless regions of the sky | I |
| And now 'tis whiter than before | J |
| As white as my poor cheek will be | A |
| When Lewti on my couch I lie | I |
| A dying man for love of thee | A |
| Nay treacherous image leave my mind | A |
| And yet thou didst not look unkind | A |
| - | |
| I saw a vapour in the sky | I |
| Thin and white and very high | I |
| I ne'er beheld so thin a cloud | A |
| Perhaps the breezes that can fly | I |
| Now below and now above | K |
| Have snatched aloft the lawny shroud | A |
| Of Lady fair that died for love | K |
| For maids as well as youths have perished | A |
| From fruitless love too fondly cherished | A |
| Nay treacherous image leave my mind | A |
| For Lewti never will be kind | A |
| - | |
| Hush my heedless feet from under | L |
| Slip the crumbling banks for ever | L |
| Like echoes to a distant thunder | L |
| They plunge into the gentle river | L |
| The river swans have heard my tread | A |
| And startle from their reedy bed | A |
| O beauteous birds methinks ye measure | L |
| Your movements to some heavenly tune | H |
| O beauteous birds 'tis such a pleasure | L |
| To see you move beneath the moon | H |
| I would it were your true delight | A |
| To sleep by day and wake all night | A |
| - | |
| I know the place where Lewti lies | M |
| When silent night has closed her eyes | M |
| It is a breezy jasmine bower | L |
| The nightingale sings o'er her head | A |
| Voice of the Night had I the power | L |
| That leafy labyrinth to thread | A |
| And creep like thee with soundless tread | A |
| I then might view her bosom white | A |
| Heaving lovely to my sight | A |
| As these two swans together heave | N |
| On the gently swelling wave | O |
| - | |
| Oh that she saw me in a dream | B |
| And dreamt that I had died for care | E |
| All pale and wasted I would seem | B |
| Yet fair withal as spirits are | C |
| I'd die indeed if I might see | A |
| Her bosom heave and heave for me | A |
| Soothe gentle image soothe my mind | A |
| To morrow Lewti may be kind | A |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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