Not Love Perhaps Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GGHHIIJJ KLLMM| This is not Love perhaps | A |
| Love that lays down its life | B |
| that many waters cannot quench | C |
| nor the floods drown | D |
| But something written in lighter ink | E |
| said in a lower tone something perhaps especially our own | F |
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| A need at times to be together and talk | G |
| And then the finding we can walk | G |
| More firmly through dark narrow places | H |
| And meet more easily nightmare faces | H |
| A need to reach out sometimes hand to hand | I |
| And then find Earth less like an alien land | I |
| A need for alliance to defeat | J |
| The whisperers at the corner of the street | J |
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| A need for inns on roads islands in seas | K |
| Halts for discoveries to be shared | L |
| Maps checked notes compared | L |
| A need at times of each for each | M |
| Direct as the need of throat and tongue for speech | M |
Arthur Seymour John Tessimond
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