Her Star Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB EFGFHF IJKJIJ ELMLNL OPHPKP QRIRSR TOU RVWVFV XFFFRS YBSBZB SVRVFV| When the heavens throb and vibrate | A |
| All along their silver veins | B |
| To the mellow storm of music | C |
| Sweeping o'er the starry trains | B |
| Heard by few as erst by shepherds | D |
| On the far Chaldean plains | B |
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| Not the blazing torch like planets | E |
| Not the Pleiads wild and free | F |
| Not Arcturus Mars Uranus | G |
| Bring the brightest dreams to me | F |
| But I gaze in rapt devotion | H |
| On the central star of three | F |
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| Central star of three that tingle | I |
| In the balmy southern sky | J |
| One above and one below it | K |
| Dreamily they pale and die | J |
| As two lesser minds might dwindle | I |
| When some great soul passing by | J |
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| Stops and reads their cherished secrets | E |
| With a calm and godlike air | L |
| Luring all their radiance from them | M |
| Leaving a dim twilight there | L |
| Something vague and half unreal | N |
| Like the Alpha of despair | L |
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| Gazing thus and holding converse | O |
| With the silence of my heart | P |
| I would speak with famed Orion | H |
| I would question it apart | P |
| Wrest her love's strange secret from it | K |
| If there's strength in human art | P |
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| And there come to me sweet whispers | Q |
| Half in answer half in thought | R |
| Be but strong impassioned mortal | I |
| Love will come to thee unsought | R |
| Love is the divine Irene | S |
| It is given and not bought | R |
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| Transcriber's note In the original book | T |
| the e's in the Irene in the above verse | O |
| were e macrons Unicode U | U |
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| Strong of heart Be wise be steadfast | R |
| Learn endeavour and endure | V |
| Blest with strength and light in wisdom | W |
| Make the higher purpose sure | V |
| Never can her heart receive thee | F |
| Till thine own is rendered pure | V |
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| I but shone in truth above her | X |
| Psyche like she yearned to me | F |
| And her soul an Aphrodite | F |
| Rose above the ether sea | F |
| Love Love should and will inherit | R |
| The divine Euphrosyne | S |
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| When at night the gleaming heavens | Y |
| Throb through all their starry veins | B |
| Oft I ponder on Orion | S |
| And I hear celestial strains | B |
| Passing through my soul and flooding | Z |
| All its green immortal plains | B |
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| Then I pray for strength Promethean | S |
| Pray for power to endure | V |
| Then I say O soul be steadfast | R |
| Make the lofty purpose sure | V |
| And that love may be all worthy | F |
| God of heaven make me pure | V |
Charles Sangster
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