Willowwood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCDBCCB EEFGGF A HCCHHCCI JKKJ K A LMMMMMMM MMMMN OPMOOMMO QQROORI | 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 |
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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 |
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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 ' | - |
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 Willow wood | L |
That walk with hollow faces burning white | M |
What fathom depth of soul struck widowhood | M |
What long what longer hours one lifelong night | M |
Ere ye again who so in vain have wooed | M |
Your last hope lost who so in vain invite | M |
Your lips to that their unforgotten food | M |
Ere ye ere ye again shall see the light | M |
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Alas the bitter banks in Willowwood | M |
With tear spurge wan with blood wort burning red | M |
Alas if ever such a pillow could | M |
Steep deep the soul in sleep till she were dead | M |
Better all life forget her than this thing | N |
That Willowwood should hold her wandering ' | - |
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IV | - |
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So sang he and as meeting rose and rose | O |
Together cling through the wind's wellaway | P |
Nor change at once yet near the end of day | M |
The leaves drop loosened where the heart stain glows | O |
So when the song died did the kiss unclose | O |
And her face fell back drowned and was as grey | M |
As its grey eyes and if it ever may | M |
Meet mine again I know not if Love knows | O |
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Only I know that I leaned low and drank | Q |
A long draught from the water where she sank | Q |
Her breath and all her tears and all her soul | R |
And as I leaned I know I felt Love's face | O |
Pressed on my neck with moan of pity and grace | O |
Till both our heads were in his aureole | R |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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