The Touchstone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACC DEEDFF GHH II JKKLMM| There was a garden very strange and fair | A |
| With all the roses summer never brings | B |
| The snowy blossom of immortal Springs | B |
| Lighted its boughs and I even I was there | A |
| There were new heavens and the earth was new | C |
| And still I told my heart the dream was true | C |
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| But when the sun stood still and Time went out | D |
| Like a blown candle when she came to me | E |
| Under the bride veil of the blossomed tree | E |
| Chill through the garden blew the winds of doubt | D |
| And when with starry eyes and lips too near | F |
| She leaned to me my heart knew what to fear | F |
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| 'It is no dream ' she said 'What dream had stayed | G |
| So long It is the blessed isle that lies | H |
| Between the tides of twin eternities | H |
| It is our island do not be afraid ' | - |
| Then then at last my heart was well deceived | I |
| I hid my eyes I trembled and believed | I |
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| Her real presence sanctified my faith | J |
| Her very voice my restless fears beguiled | K |
| And it was Life that clasped me when she smiled | K |
| But when she said 'I love you ' it was Death | L |
| That that at least could neither be nor seem | M |
| Oh then indeed I knew it was a dream | M |
Edith Nesbit
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