Renunciation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH| Rose of the desert of my heart | A |
| Moon of the night that is my soul | B |
| Thou can'st not know how sweet thou art | A |
| Nor what wild tides thy beams control | B |
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| For all thy heart a garden is | C |
| Thy soul is like a dawn of May | D |
| And garden and dawn might both be his | C |
| Who from them both must turn away | D |
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| Oh garden of the Spring's delight | E |
| Oh dewy dawn of perfect noon | F |
| I will not pluck thy roses white | E |
| Or warm thy May time into June | F |
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| I can but bless thee moon and rose | G |
| And journey far and very far | H |
| To where the night no moonbeam shows | G |
| To where no happy roses are | H |
E. (edith) Nesbit
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