Flower Of Aloe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFF FFFF FGGF HIIH JCCJ| HOW can I tell you how I love you dear | A |
| There is no music now the world is old | B |
| The songs have all been sung the tales all told | B |
| Broken the vows are all this many a year | A |
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| Had we but met when all the world was new | C |
| When virgin blossoms decked untrodden fields | D |
| I had plucked all the buds that summer yields | D |
| And woven a garland worthy even of you | C |
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| Or had I sung when rhymes were yet unwed | E |
| And crowned their marriage in the songs I made | F |
| I had laid them down before you unafraid | F |
| Meet offering to your grace and goodlihead | F |
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| But all the dreams are dreamed and no new heat | F |
| Touches life's altars all the scents are burnt | F |
| The truths all taught and all the lessons learnt | F |
| And no new stars lead kings to kiss Love's feet | F |
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| For now in this grey world of youth bereft | F |
| Love has no throne no sceptre and no crown | G |
| His groves are hushed his altars are cast down | G |
| And we who worship we have nothing left | F |
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| And yet your lips The God has built him there | H |
| An altar which has known nor flower nor flame | I |
| There may we burn the incense to Love's name | I |
| There the immortal virgin rose be fair | H |
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| So since my lips have known but one desire | J |
| And all my flowers of life are vowed to you | C |
| For us at least the old world has something new | C |
| For me the altar and for you the fire | J |
Edith Nesbit
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