To O-, Of Her Dark Eyes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBCB DEDE FBFB GHGH BIBI| Across what calm of tropic seas | A |
| 'Neath alien clusters of the nights | B |
| Looked in the past such eyes as these | A |
| Long quenched relumed ancestral lights | B |
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| The generations fostered them | C |
| And steadfast Nature secretwise | B |
| Thou seedling child of that old stem | C |
| Kindled anew thy dark bright eyes | B |
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| Was it a century or two | D |
| This lovely darkness rose and set | E |
| Occluded by grey eyes and blue | D |
| And Nature feigning to forget | E |
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| Some grandam gave a hint of it | F |
| So cherished was it in thy race | B |
| So fine a treasure to transmit | F |
| In its perfection to thy face | B |
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| Some father to some mother's breast | G |
| Entrusted it unknowing Time | H |
| Implied or made it manifest | G |
| Bequest of a forgotten clime | H |
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| Hereditary eyes But this | B |
| Is single singular apart | I |
| New made thy love new made thy kiss | B |
| New made thy errand to my heart | I |
Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell
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