The Veil Of Maya Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDEC FGGF HIJH KLLKSweet I have loved before I know | A |
This longing that invades my days | B |
This shape that haunts life's busy ways | B |
I know since long and long ago | A |
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This starry mystery of delight | C |
That floats across my eager eyes | D |
This pain that makes earth Paradise | E |
These magic songs of day and night | C |
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I know them for the things they are | F |
A passing pain a longing fleet | G |
A shape that soon I shall not meet | G |
A fading dream of veil and star | F |
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Yet even as my lips proclaim | H |
The wisdom that the years have lent | I |
Your absence is joy's banishment | J |
And life's one music is your name | H |
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I love you to my heart's hid core | K |
Those other loves how should one learn | L |
From marshlights how the great fires burn | L |
Ah no I never loved before | K |
E. (edith) Nesbit
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