Though All The World Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAC DEDEFEFE GHGIJEJE DEDEKLKL JAJAACAC| Though all the world should stand aside | A |
| And leave you to your sorrow | B |
| And you from none or near or wide | A |
| A smile or tear could borrow | B |
| I still would stand with arms outspread | A |
| In love and trust unshaken | C |
| To make a nest for that dear head | A |
| By all the rest forsaken | C |
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| Come let me crouch beside your knees | D |
| And we will talk together | E |
| You who have passed o'er stormy seas | D |
| And I through tranquil weather | E |
| What is to me the shallow scoff | F |
| Of pert or pious sneerer | E |
| Let the base crowd move further off | F |
| I only creep the nearer | E |
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| Sweet child 'tis not your deep blue eyes | G |
| Nor yet your raven tresses | H |
| Nor that strange mystic look more wise | G |
| Than all your mouth expresses | I |
| 'Tis not your face 'tis not your form | J |
| Your accents bright and clever | E |
| Which bind me with a strength enorm | J |
| And make me yours for ever | E |
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| And yet and yet 'tis all of these | D |
| But oh 'tis something rarer | E |
| Makes every pleasing grace more please | D |
| And each fair charm the fairer | E |
| It is because your soul is high | K |
| If your affections lowly | L |
| That I prostrate myself and sigh | K |
| Before a shrine too holy | L |
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| And if fell clouds quenched girlhood's beam | J |
| And cast their shadow o'er it | A |
| Your lustre now doth brighter seem | J |
| For those dark days before it | A |
| Like those fair lamps that change by night | A |
| Their radiance with their motion | C |
| Burn low then fling a flood of light | A |
| Athwart the murky ocean | C |
Alfred Austin
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