Stella Maris Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEEFFAAGGHHI IJJEEKK CCLLMMNNOEPPQQKKRRHH SS OOTTKKUUVVJJWWEEWhy is it I remember yet | A |
You of all women one has met | A |
In random wayfare as one meets | B |
The chance romances of the streets | B |
The Juliet of a night I know | C |
Your heart holds many a Romeo | C |
And I who call to mind your face | D |
In so serene a pausing place | D |
Where the bright pure expanse of sea | E |
The shadowy shore's austerity | E |
Seems a reproach to you and me | E |
I too have sought on many a breast | F |
The ecstasy of love's unrest | F |
I too have had my dreams and met | A |
Ah me how many a Juliet | A |
Why is it then that I recall | G |
You neither first nor last of all | G |
For surely as I see tonight | H |
The glancing of the lighthouse light | H |
Against the sky across the bay | I |
As turn by turn it falls my way | I |
So surely do I see your eyes | J |
Out of the empty night arise | J |
Child you arise and smile to me | E |
Out of the night out of the sea | E |
The Nereid of a moment there | K |
And is it seaweed in your hair | K |
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O lost and wrecked how long ago | C |
Out of the drown d past I know | C |
You come to call me come to claim | L |
My share of your delicious shame | L |
Child I remember and can tell | M |
One night we loved each other well | M |
And one night's love at least or most | N |
Is not so small a thing to boast | N |
You were adorable and I | O |
Adored you to infinity | E |
That nuptial night too briefly borne | P |
To the oblivion of morn | P |
Oh no oblivion for I feel | Q |
Your lips deliriously steal | Q |
Along my neck and fasten there | K |
I feel the perfume of your hair | K |
And your soft breast that heaves and dips | R |
Desiring my desirous lips | R |
And that ineffable delight | H |
When souls turn bodies and unite | H |
In the intolerable the whole | S |
Rapture of the embodied soul | S |
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That joy was ours we passed it by | O |
You have forgotten me and I | O |
Remember you thus strangely won | T |
An instant from oblivion | T |
And I remembering would declare | K |
That joy not shame is ours to share | K |
Joy that we had the will and power | U |
In spite of fate to snatch one hour | U |
Out of vague nights and days at strife | V |
So infinitely full of life | V |
And 'tis for this I see you rise | J |
A wraith with starlight in your eyes | J |
Here where the drowsy minded mood | W |
Is one with Nature's solitude | W |
For this for this you come to me | E |
Out of the night out of the sea | E |
Arthur Symons
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