Love From The North Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DBEB FBGB HBIB JBKB LBMB NBOB PBKB| I 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 | B |
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| My bridegroom answered in his turn | H |
| Myself had almost answered yea | B |
| When through the flashing nave I heard | I |
| A struggle and resounding nay | B |
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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 | B |
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| He was a strong man from the north | L |
| Light locked with eyes of dangerous gray | B |
| Put yea by for another time | M |
| In which I will not say thee nay | B |
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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 hair breadth 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 Rossetti
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