Music Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKL AGCD MNCO PNCC CNQCDown the quiet eve | A |
Thro' my window with the sunset | B |
Pipes to me a distant organ | C |
Foolish ditties | D |
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And as when you change | E |
Pictures in a magic lantern | F |
Books beds bottles floor and ceiling | G |
Fade and vanish | H |
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And I'm well once more | I |
August flares adust and torrid | J |
But my heart is full of April | K |
Sap and sweetness | L |
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In the quiet eve | A |
I am loitering longing dreaming | G |
Dreaming and a distant organ | C |
Pipes me ditties | D |
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I can see the shop | M |
I can smell the sprinkled pavement | N |
Where she serves her chestnut chignon | C |
Thrills my senses | O |
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O the sight and scent | P |
Wistful eve and perfumed pavement | N |
In the distance pipes an organ | C |
The sensation | C |
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Comes to me anew | C |
And my spirit for a moment | N |
Thro' the music breathes the blessed | Q |
Airs of London | C |
William Ernest Henley
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