The Halcyon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ACAC ADAD ECE FGFG AHAH| Why o'er the verdant banks of Ouse | A |
| Does yonder Halcyon speed so fast | B |
| 'Tis all because she would not lose | A |
| Her favourite calm that will not last | B |
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| The sun with azure paints the skies | A |
| The stream reflects each flowery spray | C |
| And frugal of her time she flies | A |
| To take her fill of love and play | C |
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| See her when rugged Boreas blows | A |
| Warm in some rocky cell remain | D |
| To seek for pleasure well she knows | A |
| Would only then enhance the pain | D |
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| 'Descend ' she cries 'thou hated shower | E |
| Deform my limpid waves to day | C |
| For I have chose a fairer hour | E |
| To take my fill of love and play ' | - |
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| You too my Silvia sure will own | F |
| Life's azure seasons swiftly roll | G |
| And when our youth or health is flown | F |
| To think of love but shocks the soul | G |
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| Could Damon but deserve thy charms | A |
| As thou art Damon's only theme | H |
| He'd fly as quick to Celia's arms | A |
| As yonder Halcyon stems the stream | H |
William Shenstone
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