Love's Anniversary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCCD EFGFHDHHD IJIJKDKKD L MNMNIOIO PPQQP RSTTSUVUWWVXYZZXXY MA2B2B2B2B2A2 C2D2E2E2F2F2C2D2G2G2 H2H2I2I2J2J2D2 K2OK2OL2M2N2M2K2YYO2 O2T JJP2TP2T XTTXQ2J2M2J2Q2M2J2J2 M2Like a bold adventurous swain | A |
Just a year ago to day | B |
I launched my bark on a radiant main | A |
And Hymen led the way | B |
Breakers ahead he cried | C |
As he sought to overwhelm | D |
My daring craft in the shrieking tide | C |
But Love like a pilot bold and tried | C |
Sat watchful at the helm | D |
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And we passed the treacherous shoals | E |
Where many a hope lay dead | F |
And splendid wrecks were piled like the ghouls | G |
Of joys forever fled | F |
Once safely over these | H |
We sped by a fairy realm | D |
Across the bluest and calmest seas | H |
That were ever kissed by a truant breeze | H |
With Love still at the helm | D |
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We sailed by sweet odorous isles | I |
Where the flowers and trees were one | J |
Through lakes that vied with the golden smiles | I |
Of heaven's unclouded sun | J |
Still speeds our merry bark | K |
Threading life's peaceful realm | D |
And 'tis ever morn with our marriage lark | K |
For the Pilot Love of our safety ark | K |
Stands watchful at the helm | D |
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II | L |
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A beautiful land is the Land of Dreams | M |
Green hills and valleys and deep lagoons | N |
Swift rushing torrents and gentle streams | M |
Glassing a myriad silver moons | N |
Mirror like lakelets with lovely isles | I |
And verdurous headlands looking down | O |
On the Neread shapes whose smiles | I |
Were worth the price of a peaceful crown | O |
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We clutch at the silvery bars | P |
Flung from the motionless stars | P |
And climb far into space | Q |
Defying the race | Q |
Who ride in a rial cars | P |
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We take up the harp of the mind | R |
And finger its delicate strings | S |
The notes soft and light | T |
As a moonbeam's flight | T |
Departing on viewless wings | S |
Afar in some fanciful bower | U |
Some region of exquisite calm | V |
Where the starlight falls in a gleaming shower | U |
We sink to repose | W |
On our couch of rose | W |
Inhaling no mortal balm | V |
The worlds are no longer unknown | X |
We pass through the uttermost sky | Y |
Our eyelids are kissed | Z |
By a gentle mist | Z |
And we feel the tone | X |
Of a calmer zone | X |
As if heaven were wondrous nigh | Y |
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A fanciful land is the Land of Dreams | M |
Where earth and heaven are clasping hands | A2 |
No heaven no earth | B2 |
But one wide new birth | B2 |
Where Beauty and Goodness and human worth | B2 |
Make earth of heaven and heaven of earth | B2 |
And angels are walking on golden strands | A2 |
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And the pearly gates of the universe | C2 |
Of mind and fancy opening | D2 |
To the touch of the dainty finger tips | E2 |
Of elegant Peris with rose bud lips | E2 |
Delicate weird like sounds are born | F2 |
From the amber depths of odorous morn | F2 |
And spirits of beauty and light rehearse | C2 |
Such strains as the young immortals sing | D2 |
When the souls of the blest | G2 |
Are borne to their rest | G2 |
On luminous pinions of light serene | H2 |
To the fragrant bowers of evergreen | H2 |
O'er the rosy plains where the dying hours | I2 |
Are changed by a spell to celestial flowers | I2 |
Where the skies have a hue no name can express | J2 |
For the tone of their passionate loveliness | J2 |
Surpasseth all human imagining | D2 |
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Such was their beautiful Dream of Life | K2 |
Each stern reality softened down | O |
Earth seemed to have ended her age of Strife | K2 |
And Harmony reigned her olive crown | O |
Besting on the Parian brow | L2 |
Of the fair victor like the gleam | M2 |
Of the silvery moon on waves that flow | N2 |
Thoughtfully down the summer stream | M2 |
Such was their earnest Dream of Life | K2 |
Was it some angel with jealous eye | Y |
Seeing such love beneath the sky | Y |
As never yet in world or star | O2 |
Or spheral height that reached so far | O2 |
'Twas never beheld by mortal sight | T |
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Or elsewhere save in highest heaven | J |
Was duly earned or truly given | J |
That leagued with the usurper Death | P2 |
To quench the light that shone so bright | T |
That in all the earth there was not a breath | P2 |
So foul as to change their day to night | T |
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Alone alone Oh word of fearful tone | X |
Well might the moon withhold her light | T |
The stars withdraw from human sight | T |
When Love was overthrown | X |
The Minstrel's heart how changed | Q2 |
Love's principalities | J2 |
O'er which he reigned supreme | M2 |
Usurped by earth's realities | J2 |
The realm through which he ranged | Q2 |
Become a vanished dream | M2 |
And yet he sung as sings | J2 |
The dying swan that droops its wings | J2 |
And drifts along the stream | M2 |
Charles Sangster
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