The Year Of Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEE FFGG HHII JJKK LLMM NNOO PPQQ RRFF SSTU BVWW| There were four loves that one by one | A |
| Following the seasons and the sun | A |
| Passed over without tears and fell | B |
| Away without farewell | B |
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| The first was made of gold and tears | C |
| The next of aspen leaves and fears | D |
| The third of rose boughs and rose roots | E |
| The last love of strange fruits | E |
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| These were the four loves faded Hold | F |
| Some minutes fast the time of gold | F |
| When our lips each way clung and clove | G |
| To a face full of love | G |
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| The tears inside our eyelids met | H |
| Wrung forth with kissing and wept wet | H |
| The faces cleaving each to each | I |
| Where the blood served for speech | I |
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| The second with low patient brows | J |
| Bound under aspen coloured boughs | J |
| And eyes made strong and grave with sleep | K |
| And yet too weak to weep | K |
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| The third with eager mouth at ease | L |
| Fed from late autumn honey lees | L |
| Of scarce gold left in latter cells | M |
| With scattered flower smells | M |
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| Hair sprinkled over with spoilt sweet | N |
| Of ruined roses wrists and feet | N |
| Slight swathed as grassy girdled sheaves | O |
| Hold in stray poppy leaves | O |
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| The fourth with lips whereon has bled | P |
| Some great pale fruit's slow colour shed | P |
| From the rank bitten husk whence drips | Q |
| Faint blood between her lips | Q |
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| Made of the heat of whole great Junes | R |
| Burning the blue dark round their moons | R |
| Each like a mown red marigold | F |
| So hard the flame keeps hold | F |
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| These are burnt thoroughly away | S |
| Only the first holds out a day | S |
| Beyond these latter loves that were | T |
| Made of mere heat and air | U |
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| And now the time is winterly | B |
| The first love fades too none will see | V |
| When April warms the world anew | W |
| The place wherein love grew | W |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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