Love Well The Hour Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG GHGH| HEART of my heart my life and light | A |
| If you were lost what should I do | B |
| I dare not let you from my sight | A |
| Lest Death should fall in love with you | B |
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| Such countless terrors lie in wait | C |
| The gods know well how dear you are | D |
| What if they left me desolate | E |
| And plucked and set you for their star | D |
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| So hold my hand the gods are strong | F |
| And perfect joy so rare a flower | G |
| No man may hope to keep it long | F |
| And I might lose it any hour | G |
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| So kiss me close my star my flower | G |
| Thus shall the future spare me this | H |
| The thought that there was ever an hour | G |
| We might have kissed and did not kiss | H |
Edith Nesbit
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