Amor Vitae Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGI JKJK LMLM NONOI love the warm bare earth and all | A |
That works and dreams thereon | B |
I love the seasons yet to fall | A |
I love the ages gone | B |
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The valleys with the sheeted grain | C |
The river's smiling might | D |
The merry wind the rustling rain | C |
The vastness of the night | D |
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I love the morning's flame the steep | E |
Where down the vapour clings | F |
I love the clouds that float and sleep | E |
And every bird that sings | F |
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I love the purple shower that pours | G |
On far off fields at even | H |
I love the pine wood dusk whose floors | G |
Are like the courts of heaven | I |
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I love the heaven's azure span | J |
The grass beneath my feet | K |
I love the face of every man | J |
Whose thought is swift and sweet | K |
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I let the wrangling world go by | L |
And like an idle breath | M |
Its echoes and its phantoms fly | L |
I care no jot for death | M |
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Time like a Titan bright and strong | N |
Spreads one enchanted gleam | O |
Each hour is but a fluted song | N |
And life a lofty dream | O |
Archibald Lampman
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