L. E. L Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDDD EFECDDD GCGCHHH HCHCHHH IJI KKK JLCKK| 'Whose heart was breaking for a little love ' | A |
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| Downstairs I laugh I sport and jest with all | B |
| But in my solitary room above | C |
| I turn my face in silence to the wall | B |
| My heart is breaking for a little love | C |
| Though winter frosts are done | D |
| And birds pair every one | D |
| And leaves peep out for springtide is begun | D |
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| I feel no spring while spring is wellnigh blown | E |
| I find no nest while nests are in the grove | F |
| Woe's me for mine own heart that dwells alone | E |
| My heart that breaketh for a little love | C |
| While golden in the sun | D |
| Rivulets rise and run | D |
| While lilies bud for springtide is begun | D |
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| All love are loved save only I their hearts | G |
| Beat warm with love and joy beat full thereof | C |
| They cannot guess who play the pleasant parts | G |
| My heart is breaking for a little love | C |
| While beehives wake and whirr | H |
| And rabbit thins his fur | H |
| In living spring that sets the world astir | H |
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| I deck myself with skills and jewelry | H |
| I plume myself like any mated dove | C |
| They praise my rustling show and never see | H |
| My heart is breaking for a little love | C |
| While sprouts green lavender | H |
| With rosemary and myrrh | H |
| For in quick spring the sap is all astir | H |
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| Perhaps some saints in glory guess the truth | I |
| Perhaps some angels read it as they move | J |
| And cry one to another full of ruth | I |
| 'Her heart is breaking for a little love ' | - |
| Though other things have birth | K |
| And leap and sing for mirth | K |
| When springtime wakes and clothes and feeds the earth | K |
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| Yet saith a saint 'Take patience for thy scathe ' | - |
| Yet saith an angel 'Wait for thou shalt prove | J |
| True best is last true life is born of death | L |
| O thou heart broken for a little love | C |
| Then love shall fill they girth | K |
| And love make fat thy dearth | K |
| When new spring builds new heaven and clean new earth ' | - |
Christina Georgina Rossetti
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