Whistler, The Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHIBJBJ KLKL| You have heard said a youth to his sweetheart who stood | A |
| While he sat on a corn sheaf at daylight's decline | B |
| You have heard of the Danish boy's whistle of wood | A |
| I wish that the Danish boy's whistle were mine | B |
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| And what would you do with it tell me she said | C |
| While an arch smile play'd over her beautiful face | D |
| I would blow it he answered and then my fair maid | E |
| Would fly to my side and would there take her place | D |
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| Is that all you wish for Why that may be yours | F |
| Without any magic the fair maiden cried | G |
| A favour so slight one's good nature secures | F |
| And she playfully seated herself by his side | G |
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| I would blow it again said the youth and the charm | H |
| Would work so that not even modesty's check | I |
| Would be able to keep from my neck your white arm | H |
| She smiled and she laid her white arm round his neck | I |
| Yet once more I would blow and the music divine | B |
| Would bring me a third time an exquisite bliss | J |
| You would lay your fair cheek to this brown one of mine | B |
| And your lips stealing past it would give me a kiss | J |
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| The maiden laughed out in her innocent glee | K |
| What a fool of yourself with the whistle you'd make | L |
| For only consider how silly 'twould be | K |
| To sit there and whistle for what you might take | L |
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