Love's Nocturne Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABBAB CDEDDED FGHGGFG IJIJJIJ KBKBBKB LMLMMLM NONOOPO QRSRRSR TITIITU VSVSSVS WVWVVWV XKYSSXS ZUA2UUZU NSB2SSNS USUSSUS SSSSSSS SVSVVSV UC2UC2C2UC2 SD2SD2D2SD2 VSVSSVS SE2SE2E2SE2 SUSUUSU

Master of the murmuring courtsA
Where the shapes of sleep conveneB
Lo my spirit here exhortsA
All the powers of thy demesneB
For their aid to woo my queenB
What reportsA
Yield thy jealous courts unseenB
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Vaporous unaccountableC
Dreamland lies forlorn of lightD
Hollow like a breathing shellE
Ah that from all dreams I mightD
Choose one dream and guide its flightD
I know wellE
What her sleep should tell to nightD
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There the dreams are multitudesF
Some that will not wait for sleepG
Deep within the August woodsH
Some that hum while rest may steepG
Weary labour laid a heapG
InterludesF
Some of grievous moods that weepG
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Poets' fancies all are thereI
There the elf girls flood with wingsJ
Valleys full of plaintive airI
There breathe perfumes there in ringsJ
Whirl the foam bewildered springsJ
Siren thereI
Winds her dizzy hair and singsJ
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Thence the one dream mutuallyK
Dreamed in bridal unisonB
Less than waking ecstasyK
Half formed visions that make moanB
In the house of birth aloneB
And what weK
At death's wicket see unknownB
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But for mine own sleep it liesL
In one gracious form's controlM
Fair with honourable eyesL
Lamps of a translucent soulM
O their glance is loftiest doleM
Sweet and wiseL
Wherein Love descries his goalM
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Reft of her my dreams are allN
Clammy trance that fears the skyO
Changing footpaths shift and fallN
From polluted coverts nighO
Miserable phantoms sighO
Quakes the pallP
And the funeral goes byO
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Master is it soothly saidQ
That as echoes of man's speechR
Far in secret clefts are madeS
So do all men's bodies reachR
Shadows o'er thy sunken beachR
Shape or shadeS
In those halls pourtrayed of eachR
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Ah might I by thy good graceT
Groping in the windy stairI
Darkness and the breath of spaceT
Like loud waters everywhereI
Meeting mine own image thereI
Face to faceT
Send it from that place to herU
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Nay not I but oh do thouV
Master from thy shadowkindS
Call my body's phantom nowV
Bid it bear its face declin'dS
Till its flight her slumbers findS
And her browV
Feel its presence bow like windS
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Where in groves the gracile SpringW
Trembles with mute orisonV
Confidently strengtheningW
Water's voice and wind's as oneV
Shed an echo in the sunV
Soft as SpringW
Master bid it sing and moanV
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Song shall tell how glad and strongX
Is the night she soothes alwayK
Moan shall grieve with that parched tongueY
Of the brazen hours of dayS
Sounds as of the springtide theyS
Moan and songX
While the chill months long for MayS
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Not the prayers which with all leaveZ
The world's fluent woes preferU
Not the praise the world doth giveA2
Dulcet fulsome whispererU
Let it yield my love to herU
And achieveZ
Strength that shall not grieve or errU
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Wheresoe'er my dreams befallN
Both at night watch let it sayS
And where round the sundialB2
The reluctant hours of dayS
Heartless hopeless of their wayS
Rest and callN
There her glance doth fall and stayS
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Suddenly her face is thereU
So do mounting vapours wreatheS
Subtle scented transports whereU
The black firwood sets its teethS
Part the boughs and look beneathS
Lilies shareU
Secret waters there and breatheS
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Master bid my shadow bendS
Whispering thus till birth of lightS
Lest new shapes that sleep may sendS
Scatter all its work to flightS
Master master of the nightS
Bid it spendS
Speech song prayer and end arightS
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Yet ah me if at her headS
There another phantom leanV
Murmuring o'er the fragrant bedS
Ah and if my spirit's queenV
Smile those alien prayers betweenV
Ah poor shadeS
Shall it strive or fade unseenV
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How should love's own messengerU
Strive with love and be love's foeC2
Master nay If thus in herU
Sleep a wedded heart should showC2
Silent let mine image goC2
Its old shareU
Of thy spell bound air to knowC2
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Like a vapour wan and muteS
Like a flame so let it passD2
One low sigh across her luteS
One dull breath against her glassD2
And to my sad soul alasD2
One saluteS
Cold as when Death's foot shall passD2
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Then too let all hopes of mineV
All vain hopes by night and dayS
Slowly at thy summoning signV
Rise up pallid and obeyS
Dreams if this is thus were theyS
Be they thineV
And to dreamworld pine awayS
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Yet from old time life not deathS
Master in thy rule is rifeE2
Lo through thee with mingling breathS
Adam woke beside his wifeE2
O Love bring me so for strifeE2
Force and faithS
Bring me so not death but lifeE2
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Yea to Love himself is pour'dS
This frail song of hope and fearU
Thou art Love of one accordS
With kind Sleep to bring her nearU
Still eyed deep eyed ah how dearU
Master LordS
In her name implor'd O hearU

Dante Gabriel Rossetti



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