Olive Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDDEEB AFGGHHHIIF AJKKLLMNNJ OPP QQO ECCPPP E PPP CCP BBBRRRPPB IPPSSSTTI TTQQ PPT| I | A |
| Who may praise her | B |
| Eyes where midnight shames the sun | C |
| Hair of night and sunshine spun | C |
| Woven of dawn's or twilight's loom | D |
| Radiant darkness lustrous gloom | D |
| Godlike childhood's flowerlike bloom | D |
| None may praise aright nor sing | E |
| Half the grace wherewith like spring | E |
| Love arrays her | B |
| - | |
| II | A |
| Love untold | F |
| Sings in silence speaks in light | G |
| Shed from each fair feature bright | G |
| Still from heaven whence toward us now | H |
| Nine years since she deigned to bow | H |
| Down the brightness of her brow | H |
| Deigned to pass through mortal birth | I |
| Reverence calls her here on earth | I |
| Nine years old | F |
| - | |
| III | A |
| Love's deep duty | J |
| Even when love transfigured grows | K |
| Worship all too surely knows | K |
| How though love may cast out fear | L |
| Yet the debt divine and dear | L |
| Due to childhood's godhead here | M |
| May by love of man be paid | N |
| Never never song be made | N |
| Worth its beauty | J |
| - | |
| IV | - |
| Nought is all | O |
| Sung or said or dreamed or thought | P |
| Ever set beside it nought | P |
| All the love that man may give | - |
| Love whose prayer should be Forgive | - |
| Heaven we see on earth may live | - |
| Earth can thank not heaven we know | Q |
| Save with songs that ebb and flow | Q |
| Rise and fall | O |
| - | |
| V | - |
| No man living | E |
| No man dead save haply one | C |
| Now gone homeward past the sun | C |
| Ever found such grace as might | P |
| Tune his tongue to praise aright | P |
| Children flowers of love and light | P |
| Whom our praise dispraises we | - |
| Sing in sooth but not as he | - |
| Sang thanksgiving | E |
| - | |
| VI | - |
| Hope that smiled | P |
| Seeing her new born beauty made | P |
| Out of heaven's own light and shade | P |
| Smiled not half so sweetly love | - |
| Seeing the sun afar above | - |
| Warm the nest that rears the dove | - |
| Sees more bright than moon or sun | C |
| All the heaven of heavens in one | C |
| Little child | P |
| - | |
| VII | - |
| Who may sing her | B |
| Wings of angels when they stir | B |
| Make no music worthy her | B |
| Sweeter sound her shy soft words | R |
| Here than songs of God's own birds | R |
| Whom the fire of rapture girds | R |
| Round with light from love's face lit | P |
| Hands of angels find no fit | P |
| Gifts to bring her | B |
| - | |
| VIII | - |
| Babes at birth | I |
| Wear as raiment round them cast | P |
| Keep as witness toward their past | P |
| Tokens left of heaven and each | S |
| Ere its lips learn mortal speech | S |
| Ere sweet heaven pass on pass reach | S |
| Bears in undiverted eyes | T |
| Proof of unforgotten skies | T |
| Here on earth | I |
| - | |
| IX | T |
| Quenched as embers | T |
| Quenched with flakes of rain or snow | Q |
| Till the last faint flame burns low | Q |
| All those lustrous memories lie | - |
| Dead with babyhood gone by | - |
| Yet in her they dare not die | - |
| Others fair as heaven is yet | P |
| Now they share not heaven forget | P |
| She remembers | T |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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