The Last Envoy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABA CCDC EFGE HHIH HHHH JKLK M HM IINI MMMM HHOH MMHM| THIS wind that through the silent woodland blows | A |
| O'er rippling corn and dreaming pastures goes | A |
| Straight to the garden where the heart of spring | B |
| Faints in the heart of summer's earliest rose | A |
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| Dimpling the meadow's grassy green and grey | C |
| By furze that yellows all the common way | C |
| Gathering the gladness of the flowering broom | D |
| And too persistent fragrance of the may | C |
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| Gathering whatever is of sweet and dear | E |
| The wandering wind has passed away from here | F |
| Has passed to where within your garden waits | G |
| The concentrated sweetness of the year | E |
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| And in your leafed enclosure as you stood | H |
| Training your flowers to new beatitude | H |
| Ah did you guess the wind that kissed your hair | I |
| Had kissed my forehead in this solitude | H |
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| Had kissed my lips and gathered there the heat | H |
| It breathed upon your mouth my only sweet | H |
| Had gathered from my eyes the tender thought | H |
| That drooped your eyes and stirred your pulses' beat | H |
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| You only thought the sun's caress too warm | J |
| That lay upon your bosom and your arm | K |
| You did not guess the wind had brought from me | L |
| The unacknowledged fancy's fire and charm | K |
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| You only said 'Too strong these sunlit skies | M |
| More dear the moments when the daylight dies ' | - |
| And then you dreamed of meetings by your gate | H |
| In sanctity of sunset and moonrise | M |
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| To night when he shall come and meet you there | I |
| To kiss your lips and hands and eyes and hair | I |
| To light with love and hope youth's waiting shrine | N |
| Think of my love and my assured despair | I |
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| To night the wind will rob the languid flowers | M |
| Of secret scents kept close through daylit hours | M |
| It will blow coolly over dewy lawns | M |
| Where the laburnums fall in silent showers | M |
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| I too shall learn a secret then shall wrest | H |
| Life's hidden things from out her languorous breast | H |
| Shall learn the way that leads away from life | O |
| Into the land where nothing lives but rest | H |
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| You will not know that the cold air you prize | M |
| After the stormy sweetness of his sighs | M |
| Is cold from blowing through a moonlit wood | H |
| Over the hollow where a dead man lies | M |
Edith Nesbit
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