The Name Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEDE FGFGGHGH BIBIJEKE FIFILILI| It shifts and shifts from form to form | A |
| It drifts and darkles gleams and glows | B |
| It is the passion of the storm | A |
| The poignance of the rose | B |
| Through changing shapes through devious | C |
| ways | D |
| By noon or night through cloud or flame | E |
| My heart has followed all my days | D |
| Something I cannot name | E |
| - | |
| In sunlight on some woman's hair | F |
| Or starlight in some woman's eyne | G |
| Or in low laughter smothered where | F |
| Her red lips wedded mine | G |
| My heart hath known and thrilled to know | G |
| This unnamed presence that it sought | H |
| And when my heart hath found it so | G |
| Love is the name I thought | H |
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| Sometimes when sudden afterglows | B |
| In futile glory storm the skies | I |
| Within their transient gold and rose | B |
| The secret stirs and dies | I |
| Or when the trampling morn walks o'er | J |
| The troubled seas with feet of flame | E |
| My awed heart whispers Ask no more | K |
| For Beauty is the name | E |
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| Or dreaming in old chapels where | F |
| The dim aisles pulse with murmurings | I |
| That part are music part are prayer | F |
| Or rush of hidden wings | I |
| Sometimes I lift a startled head | L |
| To some saint's carven countenance | I |
| Half fancying that the lips have said | L |
| All names mean God perchance | I |
Don Marquis
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