The Rosy Bosom-d Hours Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEFEGHIHJKJKLMNM OPOPQRQRSTSTDHDHUHUH HVHVWXWXDYDYZHA2HHB2 HB2| A florin to the willing Guard | A |
| Secured for half the way | B |
| He lock'd us in ah lucky starr'd | A |
| A curtain'd front coup | C |
| The sparkling sun of August shone | D |
| The wind was in the West | E |
| Your gown and all that you had on | F |
| Was what became you best | E |
| And we were in that seldom mood | G |
| When soul with soul agrees | H |
| Mingling like flood with equal flood | I |
| In agitated ease | H |
| Far round each blade of harvest bare | J |
| Its little load of bread | K |
| Each furlong of that journey fair | J |
| With separate sweetness sped | K |
| The calm of use was coming o'er | L |
| The wonder of our wealth | M |
| And now maybe 'twas not much more | N |
| Than Eden's common health | M |
| We paced the sunny platform while | O |
| The train at Havant changed | P |
| What made the people kindly smile | O |
| Or stare with looks estranged | P |
| Too radiant for a wife you seem'd | Q |
| Serener than a bride | R |
| Me happiest born of men I deem'd | Q |
| And show'd perchance my pride | R |
| I loved that girl so gaunt and tall | S |
| Who whispered loud Sweet Thing | T |
| Scanning your figure slight yet all | S |
| Round as your own gold ring | T |
| At Salisbury you stray'd alone | D |
| Within the shafted glooms | H |
| Whilst I was by the Verger shown | D |
| The brasses and the tombs | H |
| At tea we talk'd of matters deep | U |
| Of joy that never dies | H |
| We laugh'd till love was mix'd with sleep | U |
| Within your great sweet eyes | H |
| The next day sweet with luck no less | H |
| And sense of sweetness past | V |
| The full tide of our happiness | H |
| Rose higher than the last | V |
| At Dawlish 'mid the pools of brine | W |
| You stept from rock to rock | X |
| One hand quick tightening upon mine | W |
| One holding up your frock | X |
| On starfish and on weeds alone | D |
| You seem'd intent to be | Y |
| Flash'd those great gleams of hope unknown | D |
| From you or from the sea | Y |
| Ne'er came before ah when again | Z |
| Shall come two days like these | H |
| Such quick delight within the brain | A2 |
| Within the heart such peace | H |
| I thought indeed by magic chance | H |
| A third from Heaven to win | B2 |
| But as at dusk we reach'd Penzance | H |
| A drizzling rain set in | B2 |
Coventry Patmore
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