Romance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD EE FG HH II| To clasp you now and feel your head close pressed | A |
| Scented and warm against my beating breast | A |
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| To whisper soft and quivering your name | B |
| And drink the passion burning in your frame | B |
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| To lie at full length taut with cheek to cheek | C |
| And tease your mouth with kisses till you speak | C |
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| Love words mad words dream words sweet senseless words | D |
| Melodious like notes of mating birds | D |
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| To hear you ask if I shall love always | E |
| And myself answer Till the end of days | E |
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| To feel your easeful sigh of happiness | F |
| When on your trembling lips I murmur Yes | G |
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| It is so sweet We know it is not true | H |
| What matters it The night must shed her dew | H |
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| We know it is not true but it is sweet | I |
| The poem with this music is complete | I |
Claude Mckay
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