An Interlude Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHI FJFJ IAIA FKFK LMLN COCO FPFP CBCB FQFQ ARAR IAIA| IN the greenest growth of the Maytime | A |
| I rode where the woods were wet | B |
| Between the dawn and the daytime | A |
| The spring was glad that we met | B |
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| There was something the season wanted | C |
| Though the ways and the woods smelt sweet | D |
| The breath at your lips that panted | E |
| The pulse of the grass at your feet | D |
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| You came and the sun came after | F |
| And the green grew golden above | G |
| And the flag flowers lightened with laughter | F |
| And the meadow sweet shook with love | G |
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| Your feet in the full grown grasses | H |
| Moved soft as a weak wind blows | I |
| You passed me as April passes | H |
| With face made out of a rose | I |
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| By the stream where the stems were slender | F |
| Your bright foot paused at the sedge | J |
| It might be to watch the tender | F |
| Light leaves in the springtime hedge | J |
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| On boughs that the sweet month blanches | I |
| With flowery frost of May | A |
| It might be a bird in the branches | I |
| It might be a thorn in the way | A |
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| I waited to watch you linger | F |
| With foot drawn back from the dew | K |
| Till a sunbeam straight like a finger | F |
| Struck sharp through the leaves at you | K |
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| And a bird overhead sang Follow | L |
| And a bird to the right sang Here | M |
| And the arch of the leaves was hollow | L |
| And the meaning of May was clear | N |
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| I saw where the sun s hand pointed | C |
| I knew what the bird s note said | O |
| By the dawn and the dewfall anointed | C |
| You were queen by the gold on your head | O |
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| As the glimpse of a burnt out ember | F |
| Recalls a regret of the sun | P |
| I remember forget and remember | F |
| What Love saw done and undone | P |
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| I remember the way we parted | C |
| The day and the way we met | B |
| You hoped we were both broken hearted | C |
| And knew we should both forget | B |
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| And May with her world in flower | F |
| Seemed still to murmur and smile | Q |
| As you murmured and smiled for an hour | F |
| I saw you turn at the stile | Q |
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| A hand like a white wood blossom | A |
| You lifted and waved and passed | R |
| With head hung down to the bosom | A |
| And pale as it seemed at last | R |
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| And the best and the worst of this is | I |
| That neither is most to blame | A |
| If you ve forgotten my kisses | I |
| And I ve forgotten your name | A |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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