The Lake Of The Dismal Swamp Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAB DEDD FGFFG HBHHB IEII JK JK LGLLG ABAAB| 'THEY made her a grave too cold and damp | A |
| For a soul so warm and true | B |
| And she's gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp | C |
| Where all night long by a firefly lamp | A |
| She paddles her white canoe | B |
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| And her firefly lamp I soon shall see | D |
| And her paddle I soon shall hear | E |
| Long and moving our life shall be | D |
| And I'll hide the maid in a cypress tree | D |
| When the footstep of death is near ' | - |
| - | |
| Away to the Dismal Swamp he speeds | F |
| His path was rugged and sore | G |
| Through tangled juniper beds of reeds | F |
| Through many a fen where the serpent feeds | F |
| And man never trod before | G |
| - | |
| And when on the earth he sank to sleep | H |
| If slumber his eyelids knew | B |
| He lay where the deadly vine doth weep | H |
| Its venemous tear and nightly steep | H |
| The flesh with blistering dew | B |
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| And near him the she wolf stirr'd the brake | I |
| And the copper snake breathed in his ear | E |
| Till he starting cried from his dream awake | I |
| 'Oh when shall I see the dusky Lake | I |
| And the white canoe of my dear ' | - |
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| He saw the Lake and a meteor bright | J |
| Quick over its surface play'd | K |
| 'Welcome ' he said 'my dear one's light ' | - |
| And the dim shore echo'd for many a night | J |
| The name of the death cold maid | K |
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| Till he hollow'd a boat of the birchen bark | L |
| Which carried him off from the shore | G |
| Far far he follow'd the meteor spark | L |
| The wind was high and the clouds were dark | L |
| And the boat return'd no more | G |
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| But oft from the Indian hunter's camp | A |
| This lover and maid so true | B |
| Are seen at the hour of midnight damp | A |
| To cross the Lake by a firefly lamp | A |
| And paddle their white canoe | B |
Thomas Moore
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