How Oft, When Watching Stars. (savoyard Air.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEFE GHGHCCIJKJ| Oft when the watching stars grow pale | A |
| And round me sleeps the moonlight scene | B |
| To hear a flute through yonder vale | A |
| I from my casement lean | B |
| Come come my love each note then seems to say | C |
| Oh come my love the night wears fast away | C |
| Never to mortal ear | D |
| Could words tho' warm they be | E |
| Speak Passion's language half so clear | F |
| As do those notes to me | E |
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| Then quick my own light lute I seek | G |
| And strike the chords with loudest swell | H |
| And tho' they naught to others speak | G |
| He knows their language well | H |
| I come my love each note then seems to say | C |
| I come my love thine thine till break of day | C |
| Oh weak the power of words | I |
| The hues of painting dim | J |
| Compared to what those simple chords | K |
| Then say and paint to him | J |
Thomas Moore
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