Love's Anniversary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCCD EFGFHDHHD IJIJKDKKD L MNMNIOIO PPQQP RSTTSUVUWWVXYZZXXY MA2B2B2B2B2A2 C2D2E2E2F2F2C2D2G2G2 H2H2I2I2J2J2D2 K2OK2OL2M2N2M2K2YYO2 O2T JJP2TP2T XTTXQ2J2M2J2Q2M2J2J2 M2

Like a bold adventurous swainA
Just a year ago to dayB
I launched my bark on a radiant mainA
And Hymen led the wayB
Breakers ahead he criedC
As he sought to overwhelmD
My daring craft in the shrieking tideC
But Love like a pilot bold and triedC
Sat watchful at the helmD
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And we passed the treacherous shoalsE
Where many a hope lay deadF
And splendid wrecks were piled like the ghoulsG
Of joys forever fledF
Once safely over theseH
We sped by a fairy realmD
Across the bluest and calmest seasH
That were ever kissed by a truant breezeH
With Love still at the helmD
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We sailed by sweet odorous islesI
Where the flowers and trees were oneJ
Through lakes that vied with the golden smilesI
Of heaven's unclouded sunJ
Still speeds our merry barkK
Threading life's peaceful realmD
And 'tis ever morn with our marriage larkK
For the Pilot Love of our safety arkK
Stands watchful at the helmD
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A beautiful land is the Land of DreamsM
Green hills and valleys and deep lagoonsN
Swift rushing torrents and gentle streamsM
Glassing a myriad silver moonsN
Mirror like lakelets with lovely islesI
And verdurous headlands looking downO
On the Neread shapes whose smilesI
Were worth the price of a peaceful crownO
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We clutch at the silvery barsP
Flung from the motionless starsP
And climb far into spaceQ
Defying the raceQ
Who ride in a rial carsP
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We take up the harp of the mindR
And finger its delicate stringsS
The notes soft and lightT
As a moonbeam's flightT
Departing on viewless wingsS
Afar in some fanciful bowerU
Some region of exquisite calmV
Where the starlight falls in a gleaming showerU
We sink to reposeW
On our couch of roseW
Inhaling no mortal balmV
The worlds are no longer unknownX
We pass through the uttermost skyY
Our eyelids are kissedZ
By a gentle mistZ
And we feel the toneX
Of a calmer zoneX
As if heaven were wondrous nighY
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A fanciful land is the Land of DreamsM
Where earth and heaven are clasping handsA2
No heaven no earthB2
But one wide new birthB2
Where Beauty and Goodness and human worthB2
Make earth of heaven and heaven of earthB2
And angels are walking on golden strandsA2
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And the pearly gates of the universeC2
Of mind and fancy openingD2
To the touch of the dainty finger tipsE2
Of elegant Peris with rose bud lipsE2
Delicate weird like sounds are bornF2
From the amber depths of odorous mornF2
And spirits of beauty and light rehearseC2
Such strains as the young immortals singD2
When the souls of the blestG2
Are borne to their restG2
On luminous pinions of light sereneH2
To the fragrant bowers of evergreenH2
O'er the rosy plains where the dying hoursI2
Are changed by a spell to celestial flowersI2
Where the skies have a hue no name can expressJ2
For the tone of their passionate lovelinessJ2
Surpasseth all human imaginingD2
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Such was their beautiful Dream of LifeK2
Each stern reality softened downO
Earth seemed to have ended her age of StrifeK2
And Harmony reigned her olive crownO
Besting on the Parian browL2
Of the fair victor like the gleamM2
Of the silvery moon on waves that flowN2
Thoughtfully down the summer streamM2
Such was their earnest Dream of LifeK2
Was it some angel with jealous eyeY
Seeing such love beneath the skyY
As never yet in world or starO2
Or spheral height that reached so farO2
'Twas never beheld by mortal sightT
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Or elsewhere save in highest heavenJ
Was duly earned or truly givenJ
That leagued with the usurper DeathP2
To quench the light that shone so brightT
That in all the earth there was not a breathP2
So foul as to change their day to nightT
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Alone alone Oh word of fearful toneX
Well might the moon withhold her lightT
The stars withdraw from human sightT
When Love was overthrownX
The Minstrel's heart how changedQ2
Love's principalitiesJ2
O'er which he reigned supremeM2
Usurped by earth's realitiesJ2
The realm through which he rangedQ2
Become a vanished dreamM2
And yet he sung as singsJ2
The dying swan that droops its wingsJ2
And drifts along the streamM2

Charles Sangster



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