Love From The North Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DBEB FBG H I JBK LBM NBOB PBKBI had a love in soft south land | A |
Beloved through April far in May | B |
He waited on my lightest breath | C |
And never dared to say me nay | B |
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He saddened if my cheer was sad | D |
But gay he grew if I was gay | B |
We never differed on a hair | E |
My yes his yes my nay his nay | B |
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The wedding hour was come the aisles | F |
Were flushed with sun and flowers that day | B |
I pacing balanced in my thoughts | G |
'It's quite too late to think of nay ' | - |
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My bridegroom answered in his turn | H |
Myself had almost answered 'yea ' | - |
When through the flashing nave I heard | I |
A struggle and resounding 'nay ' | - |
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Bridemaids and bridegroom shrank in fear | J |
But I stood high who stood at bay | B |
'And if I answer yea fair Sir | K |
What man art thou to bar with nay ' | - |
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He was a strong man from the north | L |
Light locked with eyes of dangerous grey | B |
'Put yea by for another time | M |
In which I will not say thee nay ' | - |
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He took me in his strong white arms | N |
He bore me on his horse away | B |
O'er crag morass and hairbreadth pass | O |
But never asked me yea or nay | B |
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He made me fast with book and bell | P |
With links of love he makes me stay | B |
Till now I've neither heart nor power | K |
Nor will nor wish to say him nay | B |
Christina Georgina Rossetti
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