Love's Cryptogram Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFG H IJIJIKIK L MNMNOKPK H QKQKNKNK| The author if he can be so styled awoke from a restless | A |
| sleep with the first stanza of the following piece in his | B |
| mind He has no memory of composing it either awake or | C |
| asleep He had long known the perhaps Pythagorean fable of | D |
| the bean juice but certainly never thought of applying it | E |
| to an amorous correspondence The remaining verses are the | F |
| contribution of his Conscious Self | G |
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| ELLE | H |
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| I cannot write I may not write | I |
| I dare not write to thee | J |
| But look on the face of the moon by night | I |
| And my letters shalt thou see | J |
| For every letter that lovers write | I |
| By their loves on the moon is seen | K |
| If they pen their thought on the paper white | I |
| With the magic juice of the bean | K |
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| LUI | L |
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| Oh I had written this many a year | M |
| And my letters you had read | N |
| Had you only told me the spell my dear | M |
| Ere ever we twain were wed | N |
| But I have a lady and you have a lord | O |
| And their eyes are of the green | K |
| And we dared not trust to the written word | P |
| Lest our long long love be seen | K |
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| ELLE | H |
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| Oh every thought that your heart has thought | Q |
| Since the world came us between | K |
| The birds of the air to my heart have brought | Q |
| With no word heard or seen | K |
| 'Twas thus in a dream we spoke and said | N |
| Myself and my love unseen | K |
| But I woke and sighed on my weary bed | N |
| For the spell of the juice of the bean | K |
Andrew Lang
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