The Serenade Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC DBBB EFGF HIFI JKLK MBNB BOFO OPQP LBBB GROS GOOO GOFO LBGB GTQT BBDB| FROM THE SPANISH | A |
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| If slumber sweet Lisena | B |
| Have stolen o'er thine eyes | C |
| As night steals o'er the glory | D |
| Of spring's transparent skies | C |
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| Wake in thy scorn and beauty | D |
| And listen to the strain | B |
| That murmurs my devotion | B |
| That mourns for thy disdain | B |
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| Here by thy door at midnight | E |
| I pass the dreary hour | F |
| With plaintive sounds profaning | G |
| The silence of thy bower | F |
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| A tale of sorrow cherished | H |
| Too fondly to depart | I |
| Of wrong from love the flatterer | F |
| And my own wayward heart | I |
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| Twice o'er this vale the seasons | J |
| Have brought and borne away | K |
| The January tempest | L |
| The genial wind of May | K |
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| Yet still my plaint is uttered | M |
| My tears and sighs are given | B |
| To earth's unconscious waters | N |
| And wandering winds of heaven | B |
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| I saw from this fair region | B |
| The smile of summer pass | O |
| And myriad frost stars glitter | F |
| Among the russet grass | O |
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| While winter seized the streamlets | O |
| That fled along the ground | P |
| And fast in chains of crystal | Q |
| The truant murmurers bound | P |
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| I saw that to the forest | L |
| The nightingales had flown | B |
| And every sweet voiced fountain | B |
| Had hushed its silver tone | B |
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| The maniac winds divorcing | G |
| The turtle from his mate | R |
| Raved through the leafy beeches | O |
| And left them desolate | S |
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| Now May with life and music | G |
| The blooming valley fills | O |
| And rears her flowery arches | O |
| For all the little rills | O |
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| The minstrel bird of evening | G |
| Comes back on joyous wings | O |
| And like the harp's soft murmur | F |
| Is heard the gush of springs | O |
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| And deep within the forest | L |
| Are wedded turtles seen | B |
| Their nuptial chambers seeking | G |
| Their chambers close and green | B |
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| The rugged trees are mingling | G |
| Their flowery sprays in love | T |
| The ivy climbs the laurel | Q |
| To clasp the boughs above | T |
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| They change but thou Lisena | B |
| Art cold while I complain | B |
| Why to thy lover only | D |
| Should spring return in vain | B |
William Cullen Bryant
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