To Helen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHEAIFJIKL MNIA FAOIPQRSTKCUVWXYZZBW A2EB2C2D2E2F2 FG2VH2I2FJ2B2 K2L2FGGC2M2FN2N2EI saw thee once once only years ago | A |
I must not say how many but not many | B |
It was a July midnight and from out | C |
A full orbed moon that like thine own soul soaring | D |
Sought a precipitate pathway up through heaven | E |
There fell a silvery silken veil of light | F |
With quietude and sultriness and slumber | G |
Upon the upturn'd faces of a thousand | H |
Roses that grew in an enchanted garden | E |
Where no wind dared to stir unless on tiptoe | A |
Fell on the upturn'd faces of these roses | I |
That gave out in return for the love light | F |
Their odorous souls in an ecstatic death | J |
Fell on the upturn'd faces of these roses | I |
That smiled and died in this parterre enchanted | K |
By thee and by the poetry of thy presence | L |
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Clad all in white upon a violet bank | M |
I saw thee half reclining while the moon | N |
Fell on the upturn'd faces of the roses | I |
And on thine own upturn'd alas in sorrow | A |
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Was it not Fate that on this July midnight | F |
Was it not Fate whose name is also Sorrow | A |
That bade me pause before that garden gate | O |
To breathe the incense of those slumbering roses | I |
No footstep stirred the hated world all slept | P |
Save only thee and me O Heaven O God | Q |
How my heart beats in coupling those two words | R |
Save only thee and me I paused I looked | S |
And in an instant all things disappeared | T |
Ah bear in mind this garden was enchanted | K |
The pearly lustre of the moon went out | C |
The mossy banks and the meandering paths | U |
The happy flowers and the repining trees | V |
Were seen no more the very roses' odors | W |
Died in the arms of the adoring airs | X |
All all expired save thee save less than thou | Y |
Save only the divine light in thine eyes | Z |
Save but the soul in thine uplifted eyes | Z |
I saw but them they were the world to me | B |
I saw but them saw only them for hours | W |
Saw only them until the moon went down | A2 |
What wild heart histories seemed to lie unwritten | E |
Upon those crystalline celestial spheres | B2 |
How dark a woe yet how sublime a hope | C2 |
How silently serene a sea of pride | D2 |
How daring an ambition yet how deep | E2 |
How fathomless a capacity for love | F2 |
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But now at length dear Dian sank from sight | F |
Into a western couch of thunder cloud | G2 |
And thou a ghost amid the entombing trees | V |
Didst glide away Only thine eyes remained | H2 |
They would not go they never yet have gone | I2 |
Lighting my lonely pathway home that night | F |
They have not left me as my hopes have since | J2 |
They follow me they lead me through the years | B2 |
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They are my ministers yet I their slave | K2 |
Their office is to illumine and enkindle | L2 |
My duty to be saved by their bright light | F |
And purified in their electric fire | G |
And sanctified in their elysian fire | G |
They fill my soul with Beauty which is Hope | C2 |
And are far up in Heaven the stars I kneel to | M2 |
In the sad silent watches of my night | F |
While even in the meridian glare of day | N2 |
I see them still two sweetly scintillant | N2 |
Venuses unextinguished by the sun | E |
Edgar Allan Poe
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