Oenone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBEB FGFEFGF EHIHEHJH KLMLIGCG JNJNJJOJ GPJPCGGG CQIQGRIR OSOSOOKO CTKTUGGG BOOOGOC CBOBOBEB

On the holy mount of IdaA
Where the pine and cypress growB
Sate a young and lovely womanC
Weeping ever weeping lowB
Drearily throughout the forestD
Did the winds of autumn blowB
And the clouds above were flyingE
And Scamander rolled belowB
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'Faithless Paris cruel Paris '-
Thus the poor deserted spakeF
'Wherefore thus so strangely leave meG
Why thy loving bride forsakeF
Why no tender word at partingE
Why no kiss no farewell takeF
Would that I could but forget theeG
Would this throbbing heart might breakF
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'Is my face no longer bloomingE
Are my eyes no longer brightH
Ah my tears have made them dimmerI
And my cheeks are pale and whiteH
I have wept since early morningE
I will weep the livelong nightH
Now I long for sullen darknessJ
As I once have longed for lightH
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'Paris canst thou then be cruelK
Fair and young and brave thou artL
Can it be that in thy bosomM
Lies so cold so hard a heartL
Children were we bred togetherI
She who bore me suckled theeG
I have been thine old companionC
When thou hadst no more but meG
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'I have watched thee in thy slumbersJ
When the shadow of a dreamN
Passed across thy smiling featuresJ
Like the ripple of a streamN
And so sweetly were the visionsJ
Pictured there with lively graceJ
That I half could read their importO
By the changes on thy faceJ
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'When I sang of AriadneG
Sang the old and mournful taleP
How her faithless lover TheseusJ
Left her to lament and wailP
Then thine eyes would fill and glistenC
Her complaint could soften theeG
Thou hast wept for AriadneG
Theseus' self might weep for meG
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'Thou may'st find another maidenC
With a fairer face than mineQ
With a gayer voice and sweeterI
And a spirit liker thineQ
For if e'er my beauty bound theeG
Lost and broken is the spellR
But thou canst not find anotherI
That will love thee half so wellR
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'O thou hollow ship that bearestO
Paris o'er the faithless deepS
Wouldst thou leave him on some islandO
Where alone the waters weepS
Where no human foot is mouldedO
In the wet and yellow sandO
Leave him there thou hollow vesselK
Leave him on that lonely landO
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'Then his heart will surely softenC
When his foolish hopes decayT
And his older love rekindleK
As the new one dies awayT
Visionary hills will haunt himU
Rising from the glassy seaG
And his thoughts will wander homewardsG
Unto Ida and to meG
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'O that like a little swallowB
I could reach that lonely spotO
All his errors would be pardonedO
All the weary past forgotO
Never should he wander from meG
Never should he more departO
For these arms would be his prisonC
And his home would be my heart '-
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Thus lamented fair OenoneC
Weeping ever weeping lowB
On the holy mount of IdaO
Where the pine and cypress growB
In the self same hour CassandraO
Shrieked her prophecy of woeB
And into the Spartan dwellingE
Did the faithless Paris goB

William Edmondstoune Aytoun



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