Love's Suicide Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDDEFGGBH FIJJKKLLFI MNAAOPQRMN AASSBBTTAA| Le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle | A |
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| THIS treasure of love these passion flowers | B |
| Dear as desire are dearly bought | C |
| The sweet unrest of seeing you | D |
| For some too happy hour or two | D |
| Is paid by such a wealth of tears | E |
| Such grief such bitterness such fears | F |
| Such wild remorse such weak regret | G |
| Such tide of longing towards you set | G |
| As poison all my other hours | B |
| And murder every other thought | H |
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| I cannot drink joy steeped in fears | F |
| I choose the cold unhurtful days | I |
| The roses you hold out to me | J |
| Are red and sweet enough to be | J |
| A crown one would so gladly wear | K |
| If but one's brows were strong to bear | K |
| The weight and did not ache and ache | L |
| For the fair coronation's sake | L |
| And dread of coming crownless years | F |
| When tired feet shall tread thorny ways | I |
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| There is a peace in sombre skies | M |
| Where no sun even tries to shine | N |
| But not in these where transient glow | A |
| And passionate bursts of sunshine show | A |
| Only life's dull fields drenched with rain | O |
| And then the clouds set fast again | P |
| Into a leaden sky like this is | Q |
| Lit by no lightnings of warm kisses | R |
| Whence while I look into your eyes | M |
| A thunderbolt may fall on mine | N |
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| I give you back the rose I stole | A |
| Pluck but pale leaves that near me grow | A |
| I cannot love with half a heart | S |
| 'Tis all or nothing for my part | S |
| And since the all may not be ours | B |
| Since we may only pluck Love's flowers | B |
| But may not in his temple stay | T |
| I choose the grey and lonely way | T |
| And you be thankful from your soul | A |
| That loving you I let you go | A |
Edith Nesbit
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