Variations Upon Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDDEEAAFFGHAIIJJ KLMMNNOOPPAQQIIRRCCS STTUUHKKCCVVOOWWRRHH| I | A |
| For God's sake let me love you and give over | B |
| These tedious protestations of a lover | B |
| We're of one mind to love and there's no let | C |
| Remember that and all the rest forget | C |
| And let's be happy mistress while we may | D |
| Ere yet to morrow shall be called to day | D |
| To morrow may be heedless idle hearted | E |
| One night's enough for love to have met and parted | E |
| Then be it now and I'll not say that I | A |
| In many several deaths for you would die | A |
| And I'll not ask you to declare that you | F |
| Will longer love than women mostly do | F |
| Leave words to them whom words not doings move | G |
| And let our silence answer for our love | H |
| II | A |
| Oh woman I am jealous of the eyes | I |
| That look upon you all my looks are spies | I |
| That do but lurk and follow you about | J |
| Restless to find some guilty secret out | J |
| I am unhappy if I see you not | K |
| Unhappy if I see you tell me what | L |
| That smile betokens what close thing is hid | M |
| Beneath the half way lifting of a lid | M |
| Who is it tell me I so dread to meet | N |
| Just as we turn the corner of the street | N |
| Daily I search your baffling eyes to see | O |
| Who knows what new admitted company | O |
| And sick with dread to find the thing I seek | P |
| I tremble at the name you do not speak | P |
| III | A |
| I know your lips are bought like any fruit | Q |
| I know your love and of your love the root | Q |
| I know your kisses toll for love that dies | I |
| In kissing to be buried in your eyes | I |
| I know I am degraded for your sake | R |
| And that my shame will not so much as make | R |
| Your glory or be reckoned in the debt | C |
| Of memories you are mindful to forget | C |
| All this I know and knowing it I come | S |
| Delighted to my daily martyrdom | S |
| And rich in love beyond the common store | T |
| Become for you a beggar to implore | T |
| The broken crumbs that from your table fall | U |
| Freely in your indifference on all | U |
| IV | H |
| I loved her and you say she loved me not | K |
| Well if I loved her And if she forgot | K |
| Well I have not forgotten even yet | C |
| Time and spent tears may teach me to forget | C |
| And so she loves another and did then | V |
| When she was heaven and earth to me and when | V |
| Truly she made me happy It may be | O |
| I only know how good she was to me | O |
| Friend to have loved to have been made happy thus | W |
| What better fate has life in store for us | W |
| The dream of life from which we have to wake | R |
| Happier why not why not for a dream's sake | R |
| To have been loved is well and well enough | H |
| For any man but 'tis enough to love | H |
Arthur Symons
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