By The Fates Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCCE FGFGDHDDH HIHIJKJJK LHLHMNMMN OPOPEIDEI| By the fates that have fastened our life | A |
| By the distance that holds us apart | B |
| By our passion its sweetness its strife | A |
| By the longing and ache of the heart | B |
| By our meeting our parting our pain | C |
| When meeting and parting are o'er | D |
| Take me hence to where once I have lain | C |
| Ere I die of despair and disdain | C |
| I implore | E |
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| 'Tis in vain that you bid me be calm | F |
| Can we bridle our pulses at will | G |
| Is fasting for hunger a balm | F |
| Can emptiness emptiness fill | G |
| Shall I wait till I shrivel with fire | D |
| Till I perish of parching and thirst | H |
| Shall I make of my passion a pyre | D |
| And martyred by drouth and desire | D |
| Die accursed | H |
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| I appeal to the hills which beheld | H |
| The dawning the day of our love | I |
| To the moon when our bosoms first swelled | H |
| With its birth that watched fondly above | I |
| To the city surpassingly fair | J |
| To the revel the rapture divine | K |
| That flooded the earth and the air | J |
| When our mutinous secret lay bare | J |
| Am I thine | K |
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| Will you leave me to faint and to fall | L |
| Plunge me back in the slough of despond | H |
| Shall I be to earth's darkness a thrall | L |
| When I see a whole heaven beyond | H |
| Shall you who might waken my shell | M |
| Consign it to silence and shame | N |
| And just as the notes 'gin to swell | M |
| With your hands smite the chords and dispel | M |
| All its fame | N |
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| Be this at your bidding our doom | O |
| Together then break we our chains | P |
| There is hope there is rest in the tomb | O |
| When in life nought but anguish remains | P |
| If love be but one torment more | E |
| Oh come then the gulf or the glaive | I |
| Let us live our delirium once o'er | D |
| Just once then the comfort explore | E |
| Of the grave | I |
Alfred Austin
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