Oenone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBEB FGFEFGF EHIHEHJH KLMLIGCG JNJNJJOJ GPJPCGGG CQIQGRIR OSOSOOKO CTKTUGGG BOOOGOC CBOBOBEBOn the holy mount of Ida | A |
Where the pine and cypress grow | B |
Sate a young and lovely woman | C |
Weeping ever weeping low | B |
Drearily throughout the forest | D |
Did the winds of autumn blow | B |
And the clouds above were flying | E |
And Scamander rolled below | B |
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'Faithless Paris cruel Paris ' | - |
Thus the poor deserted spake | F |
'Wherefore thus so strangely leave me | G |
Why thy loving bride forsake | F |
Why no tender word at parting | E |
Why no kiss no farewell take | F |
Would that I could but forget thee | G |
Would this throbbing heart might break | F |
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'Is my face no longer blooming | E |
Are my eyes no longer bright | H |
Ah my tears have made them dimmer | I |
And my cheeks are pale and white | H |
I have wept since early morning | E |
I will weep the livelong night | H |
Now I long for sullen darkness | J |
As I once have longed for light | H |
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'Paris canst thou then be cruel | K |
Fair and young and brave thou art | L |
Can it be that in thy bosom | M |
Lies so cold so hard a heart | L |
Children were we bred together | I |
She who bore me suckled thee | G |
I have been thine old companion | C |
When thou hadst no more but me | G |
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'I have watched thee in thy slumbers | J |
When the shadow of a dream | N |
Passed across thy smiling features | J |
Like the ripple of a stream | N |
And so sweetly were the visions | J |
Pictured there with lively grace | J |
That I half could read their import | O |
By the changes on thy face | J |
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'When I sang of Ariadne | G |
Sang the old and mournful tale | P |
How her faithless lover Theseus | J |
Left her to lament and wail | P |
Then thine eyes would fill and glisten | C |
Her complaint could soften thee | G |
Thou hast wept for Ariadne | G |
Theseus' self might weep for me | G |
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'Thou may'st find another maiden | C |
With a fairer face than mine | Q |
With a gayer voice and sweeter | I |
And a spirit liker thine | Q |
For if e'er my beauty bound thee | G |
Lost and broken is the spell | R |
But thou canst not find another | I |
That will love thee half so well | R |
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'O thou hollow ship that bearest | O |
Paris o'er the faithless deep | S |
Wouldst thou leave him on some island | O |
Where alone the waters weep | S |
Where no human foot is moulded | O |
In the wet and yellow sand | O |
Leave him there thou hollow vessel | K |
Leave him on that lonely land | O |
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'Then his heart will surely soften | C |
When his foolish hopes decay | T |
And his older love rekindle | K |
As the new one dies away | T |
Visionary hills will haunt him | U |
Rising from the glassy sea | G |
And his thoughts will wander homewards | G |
Unto Ida and to me | G |
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'O that like a little swallow | B |
I could reach that lonely spot | O |
All his errors would be pardoned | O |
All the weary past forgot | O |
Never should he wander from me | G |
Never should he more depart | O |
For these arms would be his prison | C |
And his home would be my heart ' | - |
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Thus lamented fair Oenone | C |
Weeping ever weeping low | B |
On the holy mount of Ida | O |
Where the pine and cypress grow | B |
In the self same hour Cassandra | O |
Shrieked her prophecy of woe | B |
And into the Spartan dwelling | E |
Did the faithless Paris go | B |
William Edmondstoune Aytoun
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