More Strong Than Death'from Victor Hugo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDF GHGH IJIJ KLKL| Since I have set my lips to your full cup my sweet | A |
| Since I my pallid face between your hands have laid | B |
| Since I have known your soul and all the bloom of it | C |
| And all the perfume rare now buried in the shade | B |
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| Since it was given to me to hear one happy while | D |
| The words wherein your heart spoke all its mysteries | E |
| Since I have seen you weep and since I have seen you smile | D |
| Your lips upon my lips and your eyes upon my eyes | F |
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| Since I have known above my forehead glance and gleam | G |
| A ray a single ray of your star veiled always | H |
| Since I have felt the fall upon my lifetime's stream | G |
| Of one rose petal plucked from the roses of your days | H |
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| I now am bold to say to the swift changing hours | I |
| Pass pass upon your way for I grow never old | J |
| Fleet to the dark abyss with all your fading flowers | I |
| One rose that none may pluck within my heart I hold | J |
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| Your flying wings may smite but they can never spill | K |
| The cup fulfilled of love from which my lips are wet | L |
| My heart has far more fire than you have frost to chill | K |
| My soul more love than you can make my soul forget | L |
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