Love's Substitute Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBABA CDECDE| This love that dares not warm before its flame | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Our yearning hands or from its tempting tree | B |
| Yield fruit we may consume or let us claim | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp In Hymen's scroll of happy heraldry | B |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The twining glyphs of perfect you and me | B |
| May kindle social fires whence curls no blame | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Find gardens where no fruits forbidden be | B |
| And mottoes weave unsullied by a shame | A |
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| For love unmothered Childhood wanly waits | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp For such as you to cherish it to Youth | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Raw social soils untilled need Love's own verve | E |
| That Peace a flower may oust their weedy hates | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And where Distress would faint from wolfish sleuth | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The perfect lovers' symbol is We serve | E |
Bernard O'dowd
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