A Man-s Wooing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKFK LMNM OPQP RSTS UVEV VWXW YESE ZA2SA2 B2C2D2C2 D2E2C2E2 SIF2I G2H2I2J2 FH2K2H2 SL2M2L2 N2O2WO2 SNTN P2Q2BQ2 NR2S2R2 T2U2O2V2 SO2SO2 W2SX2S XY2P2Y2 Z2HA3H O2B3SF| YOU said last night you did not think | A |
| In all the world of men | B |
| Was one true lover true alike | C |
| In deed and word and pen | B |
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| One knightly lover constant as | D |
| The old knights who sleep sound | E |
| Some women said you there might be | F |
| Not one man faithful found | E |
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| Not one man resolute to win | G |
| Or winning firm to hold | H |
| The woman among women sought | I |
| With steadfast love and bold | H |
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| Not one whose noble life and pure | J |
| Had power so to control | K |
| To tender hublest loyalty | F |
| Her free but reverent soul | K |
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| That she beside him gladly moved | L |
| As sovereign and slave | M |
| In faith unfettered homage true | N |
| Each claiming what each gave | M |
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| And then you dropped your eyelids white | O |
| And stood in maiden bloom | P |
| Proud calm unloving and unloved | Q |
| Descending to the tomb | P |
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| I let you speak and ne'er replied | R |
| I watched you for a space | S |
| Until that passionate glow like youth | T |
| Had faded from your face | S |
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| No anger showed I nor complaint | U |
| My heart's beats shook no breath | V |
| Although I knew that I had found | E |
| Her who brings life or death | V |
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| The woman true as life or death | V |
| The love strong as these twain | W |
| Against which seas of mortal fate | X |
| Beat harmlessly in vain | W |
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| 'Not one true man' I hear it still | Y |
| Your voice's clear cold sound | E |
| Upholding all your constant swains | S |
| And good knights underground | E |
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| 'Not one true lover' Woman turn | Z |
| I love you Words are small | A2 |
| 'T is life speaks plain In twenty years | S |
| Perhaps you may know all | A2 |
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| I seek you You alone I seek | B2 |
| All other women fair | C2 |
| Or wise or good may go their way | D2 |
| Without my thought or care | C2 |
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| But you I follow day by day | D2 |
| And night by night I keep | E2 |
| My heart's chaste mansion lighted where | C2 |
| Your image lies asleep | E2 |
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| Asleep If e'er to wake He knows | S |
| Who Eve to Adam brought | I |
| As you to me the embodiment | F2 |
| Of boyhood's dear sweet thought | I |
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| And youth's fond dream and manhood's hope | G2 |
| That still half hopeless shone | H2 |
| Till every rootless vain ideal | I2 |
| Commingled into one | J2 |
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| You who are so diverse from me | F |
| And yet as much my own | H2 |
| As this my soul which formed apart | K2 |
| Dwells in its bodily throne | H2 |
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| Or rather for that perishes | S |
| As these our two lives are | L2 |
| So strangely marvellously drawn | M2 |
| Together from afar | L2 |
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| Till week by week and month by month | N2 |
| We closer seem to grow | O2 |
| As two hill streams flushed with rich rain | W |
| Each into the other flow | O2 |
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| I swear no oaths I tell no lies | S |
| Nor boast I never knew | N |
| A love dream we all dream in youth | T |
| But waking I found you | N |
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| The real woman whose first touch | P2 |
| Aroused to highest life | Q2 |
| My real manhood Crown it then | B |
| Good angel friend love wife | Q2 |
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| Imperfect as I am and you | N |
| Perchance not all you seem | R2 |
| We two together shall bind up | S2 |
| Our past's bright broken dream | R2 |
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| We two together shall dare look | T2 |
| Upon the years to come | U2 |
| As travellers met in far countrie | O2 |
| Together look towards home | V2 |
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| Come home The old tales were not false | S |
| Yet the new faith is true | O2 |
| Those saintly souls who made men knights | S |
| Were women such as you | O2 |
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| For the great love that teaches love | W2 |
| Deceived not ne'er deceives | S |
| And she who most believes in man | X2 |
| Makes him what she believes | S |
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| Come If you come not I can wait | X |
| My faith like life is long | Y2 |
| My will not little my hope much | P2 |
| The patient are the strong | Y2 |
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| Yet come ah come The years run fast | Z2 |
| And hearths grow swiftly cold | H |
| Hearts too but while blood beats in mine | A3 |
| It holds you and will hold | H |
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| And so before you it lies bare | O2 |
| Take it or let it lie | B3 |
| It is an honest heart and yours | S |
| To all eternity | F |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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