The Tell-tale Lyre Poem Rhyme Scheme

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I've heard there was in ancient days	A
A Lyre of most melodious spell	B
'Twas heaven to hear its fairy lays	A
If half be true that legends tell	B
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'Twas played on by the gentlest sighs	C
And to their breath it breathed again	D
In such entrancing melodies	E
As ear had never drunk till then	D
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Not harmony's serenest touch	F
So stilly could the notes prolong	G
They were not heavenly song so much	F
As they were dreams of heavenly song	G
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If sad the heart whose murmuring air	H
Along the chords in languor stole	I
The numbers it awakened there	H
Were eloquence from pity's soul	I
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Or if the sigh serene and light	J
Was but the breath of fancied woes	K
The string that felt its airy flight	J
Soon whispered it to kind repose	K
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And when young lovers talked alone	L
If mid their bliss that Lyre was near	M
It made their accents all its own	L
And sent forth notes that heaven might hear	N
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There was a nymph who long had loved	O
But dared not tell the world how well	B
The shades where she at evening roved	O
Alone could know alone could tell	B
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'Twas there at twilight time she stole	I
When the first star announced the night	O
With him who claimed her inmost soul	I
To wander by that soothing light	O
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It chanced that in the fairy bower	P
Where blest they wooed each other's smile	Q
This Lyre of strange and magic power	P
Hung whispering o'er their head the while	Q
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And as with eyes commingling fire	P
They listened to each other's vow	R
The youth full oft would make the Lyre	S
A pillow for the maiden's brow	R
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And while the melting words she breathed	O
Were by its echoes wafted round	O
Her locks had with the chords so wreathed	O
One knew not which gave forth the sound	O
	-
Alas their hearts but little thought	O
While thus they talked the hours away	T
That every sound the Lyre was taught	O
Would linger long and long betray	T
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So mingled with its tuneful soul	I
Were all the tender murmurs grown	L
That other sighs unanswered stole	I
Nor words it breathed but theirs alone	L
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Unhappy nymph thy name was sung	U
To every breeze that wandered by	V
The secrets of thy gentle tongue	U
Were breathed in song to earth and sky	V
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The fatal Lyre by Envy's hand	O
Hung high amid the whispering groves	W
To every gale by which 'twas fanned	O
Proclaimed the mystery of your loves	X
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Nor long thus rudely was thy name	Y
To earth's derisive echoes given	Z
Some pitying spirit downward came	Y
And took the Lyre and thee to heaven	Z
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There freed from earth's unholy wrongs	A2
Both happy in Love's home shall be	B2
Thou uttering naught but seraph songs	A2
And that sweet Lyre still echoing thee	B2

Thomas Moore

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