The Song Of The Bower Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACACADAEFGFGAHAH AIAIAJAJBKBKABABILIL| SAY is it day is it dusk in thy bower | A |
| Thou whom I long for who longest for me | B |
| Oh be it light be it night 'tis Love's hour | A |
| Love's that is fettered as Love's that is free | B |
| Free love has leaped to that innermost chamber | A |
| Oh the last time and the hundred before | C |
| Fettered love motionless can but remember | A |
| Yet something that sighs from him passes the door | C |
| Nay but my heart when it flies to thy bower | A |
| What does it find there that knows it again | D |
| There it must droop like a shower beaten flower | A |
| Red at the rent core and dark with the rain | E |
| Ah yet what shelter is still shed above it | F |
| What waters still image its leaves torn apart | G |
| Thy soul is the shade that clings round it to love it | F |
| And tears are its mirror deep down in thy heart | G |
| What were my prize could I enter thy bower | A |
| This day to morrow at eve or at morn | H |
| Large lovely arms and a neck like a tower | A |
| Bosom then heaving that now lies forlorn | H |
| Kindled with love breath the sun's kiss is colder | A |
| Thy sweetness all near me so distant to day | I |
| My hand round thy neck and thy hand on my shoulder | A |
| My mouth to thy mouth as the world melts away | I |
| What is it keeps me afar from thy bower | A |
| My spirit my body so fain to be there | J |
| Waters engulfing or fires that devour | A |
| Earth heaped against me or death in the air | J |
| Nay but in day dreams for terror for pity | B |
| The trees wave their heads with an omen to tell | K |
| Nay but in night dreams throughout the dark city | B |
| The hours clashed together lose count in the bell | K |
| Shall I not one day remember thy bower | A |
| One day when all days are one day to me | B |
| Thinking I stirred not and yet had the power | A |
| Yearning Ah God if again it might be | B |
| Peace peace such a small lamp illumes on this highway | I |
| So dimly so few steps in front of my feet | L |
| Yet shows me that her way is parted from my way | I |
| Out of sight beyond light at what goal may we meet | L |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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