Love And Truth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCB DEDEFFE GHGHIIH JKJKLLK MKMKNNK OJOJPPJ| Young Love sat in a rosy bower | A |
| Towards the close of a summer day | B |
| At the evening's dusky hour | A |
| Truth bent her blessed steps that way | B |
| Over her face | C |
| Beaming a grace | C |
| Never bestowed on child of clay | B |
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| Truth looked on with an ardent joy | D |
| Wondering Love could grow so tired | E |
| Hovering o'er him she kissed the boy | D |
| When with a sudden impulse fired | E |
| Exquisite pains | F |
| Burning his veins | F |
| Wildly he woke as one inspired | E |
| - | |
| Eagerly Truth embraced the god | G |
| Filling his soul with a sense divine | H |
| Rightly he knew the paths she trod | G |
| Springing from heaven's royal line | H |
| Far had he strayed | I |
| From his guardian maid | I |
| Perilling all for his rash design | H |
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| Still as they went the tricksy youth | J |
| Wandered afar from the maiden fair | K |
| Many a plot he laid in sooth | J |
| Wherein the maid could have no share | K |
| Sowing his seeds | L |
| Bringing forth weeds | L |
| Seldom a rose and many a tare | K |
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| Save when the maiden was by his side | M |
| Love was erratic and rarely true | K |
| When she smiled on the graceful bride | M |
| Over the old world rose the new | K |
| Into life's skies | N |
| Blending her dyes | N |
| Fairer than those of the rainbow's hue | K |
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| Sunny eyed maidens whom Love decoys | O |
| Mark well the arts of the wayward youth | J |
| Sorrows he bringeth disguised as joys | O |
| Rose hued delights with cores of ruth | J |
| Learn to believe | P |
| Love will deceive | P |
| Save when he comes with his guardian Truth | J |
Charles Sangster
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