The Nightingale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF FGFG HIHI JFJF FAFA KLKL MNMN AOAO| WHEN the moon a golden pale | A |
| Lustre on my casement flings | B |
| An enchanted nightingale | A |
| In the haunted silence sings | B |
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| Strange the song its wondrous words | C |
| Taken from the primal tongue | D |
| Known to men and beasts and birds | C |
| When the care worn world was young | D |
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| Listening low I hear the stars | E |
| Through her strains move solemnly | F |
| And on lonesome banks and bars | E |
| Hear the sobbing of the sea | F |
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| And my memory dimly gropes | F |
| Hints to gather from her song | G |
| Of forgotten fears and hopes | F |
| Joys and griefs forgotten long | G |
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| And I feel once more the strife | H |
| Of a passion fierce and grand | I |
| That in some long vanished life | H |
| Held my soul at its command | I |
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| Ah my Love in robes of white | J |
| Standing by a moonlit sea | F |
| Like a lily of the night | J |
| Hast thou quite forgotten me | F |
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| Dost thou never dream at whiles | F |
| Of that silent templed vale | A |
| And the dim wood in whose aisles | F |
| Sang a secret nightingale | A |
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| Whither hast thou gone What star | K |
| Holds thy spirit pure and fine | L |
| In this world below there are | K |
| None like thee and thou wert mine | L |
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| For a season all things last | M |
| Love and Joy and Life and Death | N |
| Thou art portion of my past | M |
| I of thine whilst Time draws breath | N |
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| Fades the moonlight golden pale | A |
| And the bird has ceased to sing | O |
| Ah it was no nightingale | A |
| But my heart remembering | O |
Victor James Daley
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