The Eternal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDCDD EFEEF EGEEEG| Your dear desired grace | A |
| Your hands your lips of red | B |
| The wonder of your perfect face | A |
| Will fade like sweet rose petals shed | B |
| When you are dead | B |
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| Your beautiful hair | C |
| Dust in the dust will lie | D |
| But not the light I worship there | C |
| The gold the sunshine crowns you by | D |
| This will not die | D |
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| Your beautiful eyes | E |
| Will be closed up with clay | F |
| But all the magic they comprise | E |
| The hopes the dreams the ecstasies | E |
| Pass not away | F |
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| All I desire and see | E |
| Will be a carrion thing | G |
| But all that you have been to me | E |
| Is and can never cease to be | E |
| O Grave where is thy victory | E |
| Where Death thy sting | G |
Edith Nesbit
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