Sonnets Xlix: L: Li: Lii: Willowwood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCDBCCBEEFGGF A HCCHHCCIJKKJJK A CCCCCCCCCCCCLL MNCMMCCMOOPMMP| I | A |
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| I sat with Love upon a woodside well | B |
| Leaning across the water I and he | C |
| Nor ever did he speak nor looked at me | C |
| But touched his lute wherein was audible | D |
| The certain secret thing he had to tell | B |
| Only our mirrored eyes met silently | C |
| In the low wave and that sound came to be | C |
| The passionate voice I knew and my tears fell | B |
| And at their fall his eyes beneath grew hers | E |
| And with his foot and with his wing feathers | E |
| He swept the spring that watered my heart's drouth | F |
| Then the dark ripples spread to waving hair | G |
| And as I stooped her own lips rising there | G |
| Bubbled with brimming kisses at my mouth | F |
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| II | A |
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| And now Love sang but his was such a song | H |
| So meshed with half remembrance hard to free | C |
| As souls disused in death's sterility | C |
| May sing when the new birthday tarries long | H |
| And I was made aware of a dumb throng | H |
| That stood aloof one form by every tree | C |
| All mournful forms for each was I or she | C |
| The shades of those our days that had no tongue | I |
| They looked on us and knew us and were known | J |
| While fast together alive from the abyss | K |
| Clung the soul wrung implacable close kiss | K |
| And pity of self through all made broken moan | J |
| Which said For once for once for once alone | J |
| And still Love sang and what he sang was this | K |
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| III | A |
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| O Ye all ye that walk in Willowwood | C |
| That walk with hollow faces burning white | C |
| What fathom depth of soul struck widowhood | C |
| What long what longer hours one lifelong night | C |
| Ere ye again who so in vain have wooed | C |
| Your last hope lost who so in vain invite | C |
| Your lips to that their unforgotten food | C |
| Ere ye ere ye again shall see the light | C |
| Alas the bitter banks in Willowwood | C |
| With tear spurge wan with blood wort burning red | C |
| Alas if ever such a pillow could | C |
| Steep deep the soul in sleep till she were dead | C |
| Better all life forget her than this thing | L |
| That Willowwood should hold her wandering | L |
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| IV | - |
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| So sang he and as meeting rose and rose | M |
| Together cling through the wind's wellaway | N |
| Nor change at once yet near the end of day | C |
| The leaves drop loosened where the heart stain glows | M |
| So when the song died did the kiss unclose | M |
| And her face fell back drowned and was as grey | C |
| As its grey eyes and if it ever may | C |
| Meet mine again I know not if Love knows | M |
| Only I know that I leaned low and drank | O |
| A long draught from the water where she sank | O |
| Her breath and all her tears and all her soul | P |
| And as I leaned I know I felt Love's face | M |
| Pressed on my neck with moan of pity and grace | M |
| Till both our heads were in his aureole | P |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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