The Veil Of Maya Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDEC FGGF HIJH KLLK| SWEET I have loved before I know | A |
| This longing that invades my days | B |
| This shape that haunts life's busy ways | B |
| I know since long and long ago | A |
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| This starry mystery of delight | C |
| That floats across my eager eyes | D |
| This pain that makes earth Paradise | E |
| These magic songs of day and night | C |
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| I know them for the things they are | F |
| A passing pain a longing fleet | G |
| A shape that soon I shall not meet | G |
| A fading dream of veil and star | F |
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| Yet even as my lips proclaim | H |
| The wisdom that the years have lent | I |
| Your absence is joy's banishment | J |
| And life's one music is your name | H |
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| I love you to my heart's hid core | K |
| Those other loves how should one learn | L |
| From marshlights how the great fires burn | L |
| Ah no I never loved before | K |
Edith Nesbit
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