Caroline Branson Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFGHIJFKLKMLNOP QEQRSKT UBVWXKKYKZQQZA2QVQQ| With our hearts like drifting suns had we but walked | A |
| As often before the April fields till star light | B |
| Silkened over with viewless gauze the darkness | C |
| Under the cliff our trysting place in the wood | D |
| Where the brook turns Had we but passed from wooing | E |
| Like notes of music that run together into winning | E |
| In the inspired improvisation of love | F |
| But to put back of us as a canticle ended | G |
| The rapt enchantment of the flesh | H |
| In which our souls swooned down down | I |
| Where time was not nor space nor ourselves | J |
| Annihilated in love | F |
| To leave these behind for a room with lamps | K |
| And to stand with our Secret mocking itself | L |
| And hiding itself amid flowers and mandolins | K |
| Stared at by all between salad and coffee | M |
| And to see him tremble and feel myself | L |
| Prescient as one who signs a bond | N |
| Not flaming with gifts and pledges heaped | O |
| With rosy hands over his brow | P |
| And then O night deliberate unlovely | Q |
| With all of our wooing blotted out by the winning | E |
| In a chosen room in an hour that was known to all | Q |
| Next day he sat so listless almost cold | R |
| So strangely changed wondering why I wept | S |
| Till a kind of sick despair and voluptuous madness | K |
| Seized us to make the pact of death | T |
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| A stalk of the earth sphere | U |
| Frail as star light | B |
| Waiting to be drawn once again | V |
| Into creation's stream | W |
| But next time to be given birth | X |
| Gazed at by Raphael and St Francis | K |
| Sometimes as they pass | K |
| For I am their little brother | Y |
| To be known clearly face to face | K |
| Through a cycle of birth hereafter run | Z |
| You may know the seed and the soil | Q |
| You may feel the cold rain fall | Q |
| But only the earth sphere only heaven | Z |
| Knows the secret of the seed | A2 |
| In the nuptial chamber under the soil | Q |
| Throw me into the stream again | V |
| Give me another trial | Q |
| Save me Shelley | Q |
Edgar Lee Masters
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