An Epithalamium Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCBCDCEFE GHIIJJKKLLMMNNOOJG JH OOHH DDGGO PQKKBOBBOBBDRQDDO| Fragments and combined | A |
| - | |
| Raise high the beams of the raftered hall | B |
| Sing the Hymen refrain | C |
| Ye builders of the bridal dwelling | D |
| Sing the Hymen refrain | C |
| Lo the bridegroom comes as the War god tall | B |
| Sing the Hymen refrain | C |
| Now nay yet our tallest in stature excelling | D |
| Sing the Hymen refrain | C |
| For stately he towers above all the throng | E |
| As the Lesbian singer towers among | F |
| All alien poets a prince of song | E |
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| O happy bridegroom it cometh to day | G |
| The bridal thine heart hith longed for aye | H |
| At last shall she be thine own the maid | I |
| For whom thou hast sighed for whom thou hast prayed | I |
| For none other maiden beneath the skies | J |
| O bridegroom was like unto her in thine eyes | J |
| Whereunto may I liken thee bridegroom dear | K |
| To a green vine shoot in the spring of the year | K |
| Now now let the bridegroom rejoice for the bride | L |
| Into the hall cometh joyful eyed | L |
| Ethereal pale is her lovely face | M |
| Hail bridegroom Hail bride queenly in grace | M |
| How goodly to see thy lord stands there | N |
| And his goodness will keep him for thee ever fair | N |
| Ah doth she ah doth she regretfully brood | O |
| Does her heart still yearn after maidenhood | O |
| Nay not in this hour she cries | J |
| 'Maidenhood maidenhood whither away | G |
| Forsaking me ' | - |
| While maidenhood replies | J |
| 'Not again unto thee shall I come for aye | H |
| Not again unto thee ' | - |
| No more no more doth she chant | O |
| Proud young virginity's vaunt | O |
| 'As the sweet apple flames on the tip of a spray against the sky | H |
| At its uttermost point which the gleaners forgat and passed it by | H |
| O nay they forgat it not but they could not attain so high ' | - |
| But she thinks of the fate an evil thing | D |
| That the years fast fleeting to fair maids bring | D |
| When the roses are faded the gold turns grey | G |
| And the smoothness is furrowed as singeth the lay | G |
| 'As the hyacinth flower on the mountain side that the shepherds tread | O |
| Underfoot and low on the earth its bloom dark splendid is shed ' | - |
| Lo her hand into thine hath her father given | P |
| And thou leadest her home 'neath the Star of Even | Q |
| To thy portal the bridal train draws near | K |
| And the Chant Processional rings out clear | K |
| 'Hail Hesper who bringest home all | B |
| That radiant Dawn scattered wide | O |
| Bringest back unto fold and stall | B |
| The sheep and the goat and thy call | B |
| Brings the child to the mother's side | O |
| Let the rose ringed Star of the Evenfall | B |
| Usher thee on love's willing thrall | B |
| Bride garden of loves like roses blowing | D |
| Bride loveliest image of Paphos' Queen | R |
| So pass to the bride bower pass within | Q |
| To the nuptial couch for the sweet bestowing | D |
| On the bridegroom whose measure is overflowing | D |
| Of the bliss wherein honoured is Hera 'tis owned | O |
| Of the Marriage goddess the silver throned ' | - |
Sappho
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