The Nightingale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF FGFG HIHI JFJF FAFA KLKL MNMN AOAOWHEN 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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