The Gift Of The Gods Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HIHI JKLK MNM MMM| 'GIVE me thy dreams ' she said and I | A |
| With empty hands and very poor | B |
| Watched my fair flowery visions die | A |
| Upon the temple's marble floor | C |
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| 'Give joy ' she said I let joy go | D |
| I saw with cold unclouded eyes | E |
| The crimson of the sunset glow | D |
| Across the disenchanted skies | E |
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| 'Give me thy youth ' she said I gave | F |
| And sudden clouded died the sun | G |
| And on the green mound of a grave | F |
| Fell the slow raindrops one by one | G |
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| 'Give love ' she cried I gave that too | H |
| 'Give beauty ' Beauty sighed and fled | I |
| For what on earth should beauty do | H |
| When love who was her life was dead | I |
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| She took the balm of innocent tears | J |
| To hiss upon her altar coal | K |
| She took the hopes of all my years | L |
| And at the last she took my soul | K |
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| With heart made empty of delight | M |
| And hands that held no more fair things | N |
| I questioned her 'What shall requite | M |
| The savour of my offerings ' | - |
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| 'The Gods ' she said 'with generous hand | M |
| Give guerdon for thy gifts of cost | M |
| Wisdom is thine to understand | M |
| The worth of all that thou hast lost ' | - |
Edith Nesbit
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