Parted Presence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAACBDEEDDEEBFFBCF FGHHGGHHIJJIIJJDKKDD KK| LOVE I speak to your heart | A |
| Your heart that is always here | B |
| Oh draw me deep to its sphere | C |
| Though you and I are apart | A |
| And yield by the spirit's art | A |
| Each distant gift that is dear | C |
| O love my love you are here | B |
| Your eyes are afar to day | D |
| Yet love look now in mine eyes | E |
| Two hearts sent forth may despise | E |
| All dead things by the way | D |
| All between is decay | D |
| Dead hours and this hour that dies | E |
| O love look deep in mine eyes | E |
| Your hands to day are not here | B |
| Yet lay them love in my hands | F |
| The hourglass sheds its sands | F |
| All day for the dead hours' bier | B |
| But now as two hearts draw near | C |
| This hour like a flower expands | F |
| O love your hands in my hands | F |
| Your voice is not on the air | G |
| Yet love I can hear your voice | H |
| It bids my heart to rejoice | H |
| As knowing your heart is there | G |
| A music sweet to declare | G |
| The truth of your steadfast choice | H |
| O love how sweet is your voice | H |
| To day your lips are afar | I |
| Yet draw my lips to them love | J |
| Around beneath and above | J |
| Is frost to bind and to bar | I |
| But where I am and you are | I |
| Desire and the fire thereof | J |
| O kiss me kiss me my love | J |
| Your heart is never away | D |
| But ever with mine for ever | K |
| For ever without endeavour | K |
| To morrow love as to day | D |
| Two blent hearts never astray | D |
| Two souls no power may sever | K |
| Together O my love for ever | K |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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