King David Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHBI JBF FKJL| King David was a sorrowful man | A |
| No cause for his sorrow had he | B |
| And he called for the music of a hundred harps | C |
| To ease his melancholy | B |
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| They played till they all fell silent | D |
| Played and play sweet did they | E |
| But the sorrow that haunted the heart of King David | F |
| They could not charm away | E |
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| He rose and in his garden | G |
| Walked by the moon alone | H |
| A nightingale hidden in a cypress tree | B |
| Jargoned on and on | I |
| - | |
| King David lifted his sad eyes | J |
| Into the dark boughed tree | B |
| ''Tell me thou little bird that singest | F |
| Who taught my grief to thee ' | - |
| - | |
| But the bird in no wise heeded | F |
| And the king in the cool of the moon | K |
| Hearkened to the nightingale's sorrowfulness | J |
| Till all his own was gone | L |
Walter De La Mare
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