Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA ABAB ACAC ADAD AEAE FGFH| The fierce exulting worlds the motes in rays | A |
| The churlish thistles scented briers | A |
| The wind swept bluebells on the sunny braes | A |
| Down to the central fires | A |
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| Exist alike in Love Love is a sea | A |
| Filling all the abysses dim | B |
| Of lornest space in whose deeps regally | A |
| Suns and their bright broods swim | B |
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| This mighty sea of Love with wondrous tides | A |
| Is sternly just to sun and grain | C |
| 'Tis laving at this moment Saturn's sides | A |
| 'Tis in my blood and brain | C |
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| All things have something more than barren use | A |
| There is a scent upon the brier | D |
| A tremulous splendour in the autumn dews | A |
| Cold morns are fringed with fire | D |
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| The clodded earth goes up in sweet breath'd flowers | A |
| In music dies poor human speech | E |
| And into beauty blow those hearts of ours | A |
| When Love is born in each | E |
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| Daisies are white upon the churchyard sod | F |
| Sweet tears the clouds lean down and give | G |
| The world is very lovely O my God | F |
| I thank Thee that I live | H |
Alexander Smith
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