Love And Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBBCCBBBBBBB ABDDBBDDBEFECFC| I | A |
| AS some faint wisp of fragrance floating wide | B |
| A pennant perfume on the evening air | C |
| From a walled garden flower filled and fair | C |
| To drape a sudden beauty long denied | B |
| Upon life's highway desolate and dried | B |
| So come you to me as I unaware | C |
| Bend my strict eyes upon my pathway bare | C |
| But at your presence straight I turn aside | B |
| And passing in the garden see uncurled | B |
| The heart of hidden beauty in the world | B |
| And love as life's one blossom is revealed | B |
| My backward glance your floating tresses blind | B |
| About my struggling hopes your white arms wind | B |
| And I have yielded but how sweet to yield | B |
| - | |
| II | A |
| Yet in the prison of the garden bound | B |
| The sluggish perfumes o'er my spirit fall | D |
| And I lie languid in their sweetness' thrall | D |
| Beneath the fragrance of much beauty drowned | B |
| When through the fountain's murmur lo a sound | B |
| Insistent and reproachful O'er the wall | D |
| Drops a faint echo of the Earth's deep call | D |
| And I leap upright from the rose strewn ground | B |
| Outside the bracing wind sings clean and chill | E |
| Outside are tasks to do blows to be struck | F |
| And I must toil the dreary highway till | E |
| It broadens to the fields of death Yet ere | C |
| I leave for aye your perfumed close I pluck | F |
| A shrivelled blossom that I kiss and wear | C |
Arthur Henry Adams
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