Come, Play Me That Simple Air Again. A Ballad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDECEA FGFGHDHDIBIB| Come play me that simple air again | A |
| I used so to love in life's young day | B |
| And bring if thou canst the dreams that then | A |
| Were wakened by that sweet lay | B |
| The tender gloom its strain | C |
| Shed o'er the heart and brow | D |
| Grief's shadow without its pain | C |
| Say where where is it now | D |
| But play me the well known air once more | E |
| For thoughts of youth still haunt its strain | C |
| Like dreams of some far fairy shore | E |
| We never shall see again | A |
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| Sweet air how every note brings back | F |
| Some sunny hope some daydream bright | G |
| That shining o'er life's early track | F |
| Filled even its tears with light | G |
| The new found life that came | H |
| With love's first echoed vow | D |
| The fear the bliss the shame | H |
| Ah where where are they now | D |
| But still the same loved notes prolong | I |
| For sweet 'twere thus to that old lay | B |
| In dreams of youth and love and song | I |
| To breathe life's hour away | B |
Thomas Moore
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