Songs Of The Pixies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEDED AFFEEGGHHIIJJ AKEKEEEELEFFL MJJENEMMONOPPEE MQQERRESTTEESMM MFUEFEUNNJJEE MEEMEEMVVWIMMMNMN MDDXMMXYYXZZMM RFA2FMRA2RM| I | A |
| Whom the untaught Shepherds call | B |
| Pixies in their madrigal | C |
| Fancy's children here we dwell | D |
| Welcome Ladies to our cell | D |
| Here the wren of softest note | E |
| Builds its nest and warbles well | D |
| Here the blackbird strains his throat | E |
| Welcome Ladies to our cell | D |
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| II | A |
| When fades the moon to shadowy pale | F |
| And scuds the cloud before the gale | F |
| Ere the Morn all gem bedight | E |
| Hath streak'd the East with rosy light | E |
| We sip the furze flower's fragrant dews | G |
| Clad in robes of rainbow hues | G |
| Or sport amid the shooting gleams | H |
| To the tune of distant tinkling teams | H |
| While lusty Labour scouting sorrow | I |
| Bids the Dame a glad good morrow | I |
| Who jogs the accustomed road along | J |
| And paces cheery to her cheering song | J |
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| III | A |
| But not our filmy pinion | K |
| We scorch amid the blaze of day | E |
| When Noontide's fiery tressed minion | K |
| Flashes the fervid ray | E |
| Aye from the sultry heat | E |
| We to the cave retreat | E |
| O'ercanopied by huge roots intertwined | E |
| With wildest texture blackened o'er with age | L |
| Round them their mantle green the ivies bind | E |
| Beneath whose foliage pale | F |
| Fanned by the unfrequent gale | F |
| We shield us from the Tyrant's mid day rage | L |
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| IV | M |
| Thither while the murmuring throng | J |
| Of wild bees hum their drowsy song | J |
| By Indolence and Fancy brought | E |
| A youthful Bard 'unknown to Fame' | N |
| Wooes the Queen of Solemn Thought | E |
| And heaves the gentle misery of a sigh | M |
| Gazing with tearful eye | M |
| As round our sandy grot appear | O |
| Many a rudely sculptured name | N |
| To pensive Memory dear | O |
| Weaving gay dreams of sunny tinctured hue | P |
| We glance before his view | P |
| O'er his hush'd soul our soothing witcheries shed | E |
| And twine the future garland round his head | E |
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| V | M |
| When Evening's dusky car | Q |
| Crowned with her dewy star | Q |
| Steals o'er the fading sky in shadowy flight | E |
| On leaves of aspen trees | R |
| We tremble to the breeze | R |
| Veiled from the grosser ken of mortal sight | E |
| Or haply at the visionary hour | S |
| Along our wildly bowered sequestered walk | T |
| We listen to the enamoured rustic's talk | T |
| Heave with the heavings of the maiden's breast | E |
| Where young eyed Loves have hid their turtle nest | E |
| Or guide of soul subduing power | S |
| The glance that from the half confessing eye | M |
| Darts the fond question or the soft reply | M |
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| VI | M |
| Or through the mystic ringlets of the vale | F |
| We flash our faery feet in gamesome prank | U |
| Or silent sandal'd pay our defter court | E |
| Circling the Spirit of the Western Gale | F |
| Where wearied with his flower caressing sport | E |
| Supine he slumbers on a violet bank | U |
| Then with quaint music hymn the parting gleam | N |
| By lonely Otter's sleep persuading stream | N |
| Or where his wave with loud unquiet song | J |
| Dashed o'er the rocky channel froths along | J |
| Or where his silver waters smoothed to rest | E |
| The tall tree's shadow sleeps upon his breast | E |
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| VII | M |
| Hence thou lingerer Light | E |
| Eve saddens into Night | E |
| Mother of wildly working dreams we view | M |
| The sombre hours that round thee stand | E |
| With down cast eyes a duteous band | E |
| Their dark robes dripping with the heavy dew | M |
| Sorceress of the ebon throne | V |
| Thy power the Pixies own | V |
| When round thy raven brow | W |
| Heaven's lucent roses glow | I |
| And clouds in watery colours drest | M |
| Float in light drapery o'er thy sable vest | M |
| What time the pale moon sheds a softer day | M |
| Mellowing the woods beneath its pensive beam | N |
| For mid the quivering light 'tis ours to play | M |
| Aye dancing to the cadence of the stream | N |
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| VIII | M |
| Welcome Ladies to the cell | D |
| Where the blameless Pixies dwell | D |
| But thou sweet Nymph proclaimed our Faery Queen | X |
| With what obeisance meet | M |
| Thy presence shall we greet | M |
| For lo attendant on thy steps are seen | X |
| Graceful Ease in artless stole | Y |
| And white robed Purity of soul | Y |
| With Honour's softer mien | X |
| Mirth of the loosely flowing hair | Z |
| And meek eyed Pity eloquently fair | Z |
| Whose tearful cheeks are lovely to the view | M |
| As snow drop wet with dew | M |
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| IX | R |
| Unboastful Maid though now the Lily pale | F |
| Transparent grace thy beauties meek | A2 |
| Yet ere again along the impurpling vale | F |
| The purpling vale and elfin haunted grove | M |
| Young Zephyr his fresh flowers profusely throws | R |
| We'll tinge with livelier hues thy cheek | A2 |
| And haply from the nectar breathing Rose | R |
| Extract a Blush for Love | M |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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