Stella Maris Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEEFFAAGGHHI IJJEEKK CCLLMMNNOEPPQQKKRRHH SS OOTTKKUUVVJJWWEE| Why 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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