All That's Not Love . . . Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGHAll that's not love is the dearth of my days | A |
The leaves of the volume with rubric unwrit | B |
The temple in times without prayer without praise | A |
The altar unset and the candle unlit | B |
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Let me survive not the lovable sway | C |
Of early desire nor see when it goes | D |
The courts of Life's abbey in ivied decay | C |
Whence sometime sweet anthems and incense arose | D |
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The delicate hues of its sevenfold rings | E |
The rainbow outlives not their yellow and blue | F |
The butterfly sees not dissolve from his wings | E |
But even with their beauty life fades from them too | F |
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No more would I linger past Love's ardent bounds | G |
Nor live for aught else but the joy that it craves | H |
That burden and essence of all that surrounds | G |
Is the song in the wind and the smile on the waves | H |
Alan Seeger
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