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The River Maiden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Her gown was simple woven wool	A
But in repayment	B
Her body sweet made beautiful	C
The simplest raiment	B
For all its fine melodious curves	D
With life a quiver	E
Were graceful as the bends and swerves	D
Of her own river	E
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Her round arms from the shoulders down	F
To sweet hands slender	E
The sun had kissed them amber brown	F
With kisses tender	E
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For though she loved the secret shades	D
Where ferns grow stilly	C
And wild vines droop their glossy braids	D
And gleams the lily	C
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And Nature with soft eyes that glow	C
In gloom that glistens	D
Unto her own heart beating slow	C
In silence listens	D
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She loved no less the meadows fair	G
And green and spacious	D
The river and the azure air	G
And sunlight gracious	D
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I saw her first when tender wan	H
Green light enframed her	E
And in my heart the Flower of Dawn	I
I softly named her	E
	-
The bright sun like a king in state	B
With banners streaming	J
Rode through the fair auroral gate	B
In mail gold gleaming	J
	-
The witch eyed stars before him paled	B
So high his scorning	J
And round the hills the rose clouds sailed	B
And it was morning	J
	-
The light mimosas bended low	C
To do her honour	E
As in that rosy morning glow	C
I gazed upon her	E
	-
My boat swung bowward to the stream	K
Where tall reeds shiver	E
We floated onward in a dream	K
Far down the River	E
	-
The River that full oft has told	B
To Ocean hoary	E
A many coloured sweet and old	B
Unending story	E
	-
The story of the tall young trees	D
For ever sighing	J
To sail some day the rolling seas	D
Neath banners flying	J
	-
The Ocean hears and through his caves	D
Roars gusty laughter	E
And takes the River with his waves	D
To roll thereafter	E
	-
But Love deep waters cannot drown	F
To its old fountains	D
The stream returns in clouds that crown	F
Its parent mountains	D
	-
The River was to her so dear	E
She seemed its daughter	E
Her deep translucent eyes were clear	E
As sunlit water	E
	-
And in her bright veins seemed to run	L
Pulsating glowing	J
The music of the wind and sun	L
And waters flowing	J
	-
The secrets of the trees she knew	M
Their growth their gladness	D
And when their time of death was due	M
Their stately sadness	D
	-
Gray gums like old men warped by time	N
She knew their story	E
And theirs that laughed in pride of prime	N
And leafy glory	E
	-
And theirs that where clear waters run	L
Drooped dreaming dreaming	J
And theirs that shook against the sun	L
Their green plumes gleaming	J
	-
All things of gladness that exist	B
Did seem to woo her	E
And well that woodland satirist	B
The lyre bird knew her	E
	-
And there were hidden mossy dells	D
That she knew only	E
Where Beauty born of silence dwells	D
Mysterious lonely	E
	-
No sounds of toil their stillness taunt	B
No hearth smoke sullies	D
The air the Mountain Muses haunt	B
Those lone green gullies	D
	-
And there they weave a song of Fate	B
That never slumbers	D
A song some bard shall yet translate	B
In golden numbers	D
	-
A blue haze veiled the hills huge shapes	D
A misty lustre	E
Like rime upon the purple grapes	D
When ripe they cluster	E
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Twas noon and all the Vale was gold	B
An El Dorado	C
The damask river seaward rolled	B
Through shine and shadow	C
	-
And gazing on its changing glow	C
I saw half sighing	J
The wondrous Fairyland below	C
Its surface lying	J
	-
There all things shone with paler sheen	O
More softly shimmered	B
The fern fronds and with softer green	O
The myrtles glimmered	B
	-
And like that Fisher gazing in	P
The sea depths pining	J
For days gone by who saw Julin	P
Beneath him shining	J
	-
With many a wave washed corridor	E
And sea filled portal	C
And plunged below and nevermore	E
Was seen of mortal	C
	-
So I long gazing at the gleam	K
Of fern and flower	E
Felt drawn down to that World of Dream	K
By magic power	E
	-
For there I knew in silence sat	B
With breasts slow heaving	J
Illusion s Queen Rabesquerat	B
Her web a weaving	J
	-
But when the moon shone large and low	C
Against Orion	L
Then as from some pale portico	C
Might issue Dian	L
	-
She came through tall tree pillars pale	C
A silver vision	L
A nymph strayed out of Ida s vale	C
Or fields Elysian	L
	-
White stars shone out with mystic gleams	D
The woods illuming	C
It seemed as if the trees in dreams	D
Once more were blooming	C
	-
And all beneath those starry blooms	D
By bends and beaches	D
We floated on through glassy glooms	D
Down moonlit reaches	D
	-
Ah that was in the glad years when	L
Joys ne er were sifted	B
But I on wilder floods since then	L
Have darkly drifted	B
	-
Yet River of Romance for me	E
With pictures glowing	C
Through dim green fields of Memory	E
Thou still art flowing	C
	-
And still I hear thy shores along	C
All faintly ringing	C
The notes of ghosts of birds that long	C
Have ceased their singing	C
	-
Was she who then my heart did use	D
To touch so purely	E
A mortal maiden or a Muse	D
I know not surely	E
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But still in dreams I see her stand	B
A fairer Flora	E
Serene immortal by the strand	B
Of clear Narora	E