The Nightingale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF FGFG HIHI JFJF FAFA KLKL MNMN AOAO

WHEN the moon a golden paleA
Lustre on my casement flingsB
An enchanted nightingaleA
In the haunted silence singsB
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Strange the song its wondrous wordsC
Taken from the primal tongueD
Known to men and beasts and birdsC
When the care worn world was youngD
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Listening low I hear the starsE
Through her strains move solemnlyF
And on lonesome banks and barsE
Hear the sobbing of the seaF
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And my memory dimly gropesF
Hints to gather from her songG
Of forgotten fears and hopesF
Joys and griefs forgotten longG
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And I feel once more the strifeH
Of a passion fierce and grandI
That in some long vanished lifeH
Held my soul at its commandI
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Ah my Love in robes of whiteJ
Standing by a moonlit seaF
Like a lily of the nightJ
Hast thou quite forgotten meF
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Dost thou never dream at whilesF
Of that silent templed valeA
And the dim wood in whose aislesF
Sang a secret nightingaleA
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Whither hast thou gone What starK
Holds thy spirit pure and fineL
In this world below there areK
None like thee and thou wert mineL
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For a season all things lastM
Love and Joy and Life and DeathN
Thou art portion of my pastM
I of thine whilst Time draws breathN
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Fades the moonlight golden paleA
And the bird has ceased to singO
Ah it was no nightingaleA
But my heart rememberingO

Victor James Daley



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