Glide Soft, Ye Silver Floods Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDEE FGFGHHEE IJKJLLEE MNMNOPEE NQNQRREE| Glide soft ye silver floods | A |
| And every spring | B |
| Within the shady woods | C |
| Let no bird sing | B |
| Nor from the grove a turtle dove | D |
| Be seen to couple with her love | D |
| But silence on each dale and mountain dwell | E |
| Whilst Willy bids his friend and joy farewell | E |
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| But of great Thetis' train | F |
| Ye mermaids fair | G |
| That on the shores do plain | F |
| Your sea green hair | G |
| As ye in trammels knit your locks | H |
| Weep ye and so enforce the rocks | H |
| In heavy murmurs through the broad shores tell | E |
| How Willy bade his friend and joy farewell | E |
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| Cease cease ye murd'ring winds | I |
| To move a wave | J |
| But if with troubled minds | K |
| You seek his grave | J |
| Know 'tis as various as yourselves | L |
| Now in the deep then on the shelves | L |
| His coffin toss'd by fish and surges fell | E |
| Whilst Willy weeps and bids all joy farewell | E |
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| Had he Arion like | M |
| Been judged to drown | N |
| He on his lute could strike | M |
| So rare a sowne | N |
| A thousand dolphins would have come | O |
| And jointly strive to bring him home | P |
| But he on shipboard died by sickness fell | E |
| Since when his Willy bade all joy farewell | E |
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| Great Neptune hear a swain | N |
| His coffin take | Q |
| And with a golden chain | N |
| For pity make | Q |
| It fast unto a rock near land | R |
| Where ev'ry calmy morn I'll stand | R |
| And ere one sheep out of my fold I tell | E |
| Sad Willy's pipe shall bid his friend farewell | E |
William Browne
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