Diya [original Title Is Greek, Delta-iota-psi-alpha] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKILMNBOPCQ RSTLAUEBVWXQOQIQYZMA 2B2LC2D2AE2F2LLook Dear how bright the moonlight is to night | A |
See where it casts the shadow of that tree | B |
Far out upon the grass And every gust | C |
Of light night wind comes laden with the scent | D |
Of opening flowers which never bloom by day | E |
Night scented stocks and four o'clocks and that | F |
Pale yellow disk upreared on its tall stalk | G |
The evening primrose comrade of the stars | H |
It seems as though the garden which you love | I |
Were like a swinging censer its incense | J |
Floating before us as a reverent act | K |
To sanctify and bless our night of love | I |
Tell me once more you love me that 't is you | L |
Yes really you I touch so with my hand | M |
And tell me it is by your own free will | N |
That you are here and that you like to be | B |
Just here with me under this sailing pine | O |
I need to hear it often for my heart | P |
Doubts naturally and finds it hard to trust | C |
Ah Dearest you are good to love me so | Q |
And yet I would not have it goodness rather | R |
Excess of selfishness in you to need | S |
Me through and through as flowers need the sun | T |
I wonder can it really be that you | L |
And I are here alone and that the night | A |
Is full of hours and all the world asleep | U |
And none can call to you to come away | E |
For you have given all yourself to me | B |
Making me gentle by your willingness | V |
Has your life too been waiting for this time | W |
Not only mine the sharpness of this joy | X |
Dear Heart I love you worship you as though | Q |
I were a priest before a holy shrine | O |
I'm glad that you are beautiful although | Q |
Were you not lovely still I needs must love | I |
But you are all things it must have been so | Q |
For otherwise it were not you Come close | Y |
When you are in the circle of my arm | Z |
Faith grows a mountain and I take my stand | M |
Upon its utmost top Yes yes once more | A2 |
Kiss me and let me feel you very near | B2 |
Wanting me wholly even as I want you | L |
Have years behind been dark Will those to come | C2 |
Bring unguessed sorrows into our two lives | D2 |
What does it matter we have had to night | A |
To night will make us strong for we believe | E2 |
Each in the other this is a sacrament | F2 |
Beloved is it true | L |
Amy Lowell
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