Light Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCDEDF GHGH IGIG JKJKKLMLM NOPOOQRQR OSOSSTUTU VWVWWXYXYY VH HHBZ Z| 'Oh sad thy lot before I came | A |
| But sadder when I go | B |
| My presence but a flash of flame | A |
| A transitory glow | B |
| Between two barren wastes like snow | B |
| What wilt thou do when I am gone | C |
| Where wilt thou rest my dear | D |
| For cold thy bed to rest upon | E |
| And cold the falling year | D |
| Whose withered leaves are lost and sere ' | F |
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| She hushed the baby at her breast | G |
| She rocked it on her knee | H |
| 'And I will rest my lonely rest | G |
| Warmed with the thought of thee | H |
| Rest lulled to rest by memory ' | - |
| She hushed the baby with her kiss | I |
| She hushed it with her breast | G |
| 'Is death so sadder much than this | I |
| Sure death that builds a nest | G |
| For those who elsewhere cannot rest ' | - |
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| 'Oh sad thy note my mateless dove | J |
| With tender nestling cold | K |
| But hast thou ne'er another love | J |
| Left from the days of old | K |
| To build thy nest of silk and gold | K |
| To warm thy paleness to a blush | L |
| When I am far away | M |
| To warm thy coldness to a flush | L |
| And turn thee back to May | M |
| And turn thy twilight back to day ' | - |
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| She did not answer him again | N |
| But leaned her face aside | O |
| Weary with the pang of shame and pain | P |
| And sore with wounded pride | O |
| He knew his very soul had lied | O |
| She strained his baby in her arms | Q |
| His baby to her heart | R |
| 'Even let it go the love that harms | Q |
| We twain will never part | R |
| Mine own his own how dear thou art ' | - |
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| 'Now never teaze me tender eyed | O |
| Sigh voiced ' he said in scorn | S |
| 'For nigh at hand there blooms a bride | O |
| My bride before the morn | S |
| Ripe blooming she as thou forlorn | S |
| Ripe blooming she my rose my peach | T |
| She woos me day and night | U |
| I watch her tremble in my reach | T |
| She reddens my delight | U |
| She ripens reddens in my sight ' | - |
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| 'And is she like a sunlit rose | V |
| Am I like withered leaves | W |
| Haste where thy spic d garden blows | V |
| But in bare Autumn eves | W |
| Wilt thou have store of harvest sheaves | W |
| Thou leavest love true love behind | X |
| To seek a love as true | Y |
| Go seek in haste but wilt thou find | X |
| Change new again for new | Y |
| Pluck up enjoy yea trample too | Y |
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| 'Alas for her poor faded rose | V |
| Alas for her her like me | H |
| Cast down and trampled in the snows ' | - |
| 'Like thee nay not like thee | H |
| She leans but from a guarded tree | H |
| Farewell and dream as long ago | B |
| Before we ever met | Z |
| Farewell my swift paced horse seems slow ' | - |
| She raised her eyes not wet | Z |
| But hard to Heaven 'Does God forget ' | - |
Christina Georgina Rossetti
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