A Pair Of Lovers In The Street Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BCC DDE FFF GGG HHH III JJJ KKK LLL FIF DDD LLL FFF LLL MMM LLL LLL LLL| A PAIR of lovers in the street | A |
| I dare not mock with reverence meet | A |
| My unforgetting heart I cheat | A |
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| Ah God spare me so soon again | B |
| At the barred door to beat in vain | C |
| And find their dalliance such fierce pain | C |
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| I yearning up from Hell s abyss | D |
| See dreaming through their worlds of bliss | D |
| This Dante and his Beatrice | E |
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| For these the distant goal have won | F |
| For which God made the plasm and sun | F |
| His patient labouring is done | F |
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| For these each Spring has been a bride | G |
| And lonely worlds were spawned and died | G |
| Chaos for them in birth throes cried | G |
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| Far out in seas of Space forlorn | H |
| This crescent wave was slowly born | H |
| That thunders on the beach of morn | H |
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| Ah they so soon to be meshed in | I |
| The web of splendour silken thin | I |
| The nebulae were set to spin | I |
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| Up the long path from joy to joy | J |
| Love led the way Can aught destroy | J |
| The task that was the stars employ | J |
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| Their ecstasy to God is more | K |
| Than Lucifer at Heaven s door | K |
| Entreating pardon for his war | K |
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| These two are gods for by love swayed | L |
| They have God s special task essayed | L |
| And new worlds for their gladness made | L |
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| This little hour so lightly given | F |
| Makes earth too mean a place to live in | I |
| And broken toys His Hell and Heaven | F |
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| All Time expectant of their bliss | D |
| Hangs fearful Space through her abyss | D |
| Shudders if they this hour should miss | D |
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| For if their kiss they went without | L |
| The stars would be a raining rout | L |
| And time in anguish flicker out | L |
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| About God s room from star to sun | F |
| A stealthy slippered Thing would run | F |
| Quenching cold tapers one by one | F |
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| But they have kissed Eternity | L |
| Like a great clock beats steadily | L |
| For these mazed fools but not for me | L |
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| Of God s wide universe the strands | M |
| They hold within their clinging hands | M |
| The stars march on at their commands | M |
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| So from this moment blossom free | L |
| New universes tirelessly | L |
| Aeons of unguessed ecstasy | L |
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| But I can only bow and beat | L |
| Vain hands about God s mercy seat | L |
| And still remembering still entreat | L |
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| Surely my penance is complete | L |
| The rack turns grimly when I meet | L |
| A pair of lovers on the street | L |
Arthur Henry Adams
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