Heart And Mind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEF GBHIJ KKL CMNB| SAID the Lion to the Lioness 'When you are amber dust | A |
| No more a raging fire like the heat of the Sun | B |
| No liking but all lust | A |
| Remember still the flowering of the amber blood and bone | C |
| The rippling of bright muscles like a sea | D |
| Remember the rose prickles of bright paws | E |
| Though the fire of that sun the heart and the moon cold bone are one ' | F |
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| Said the Skeleton lying upon the sands of Time | G |
| 'The great gold planet that is the mourning heat of the Sun | B |
| Is greater than all gold more powerful | H |
| Than the tawny body of a Lion that fire consumes | I |
| Like all that grows or leaps so is the heart | J |
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| More powerful than all dust Once I was Hercules | K |
| Or Samson strong as the pillars of the seas | K |
| But the flames of the heart consumed me and the mind | L |
| Is but a foolish wind ' | - |
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| Said the Sun to the Moon 'When you are but a lonely white crone | C |
| And I a dead King in my golden armour somewhere in a dark wood | M |
| Remember only this of our hopeless love | N |
| That never till Time is done | B |
| Will the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind be one ' | - |
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
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