All That Love Asks Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADD EFFEGG HIIHJJ KAAKL MN MOO| All that I ask 'says Love 'is just to stand | A |
| And gaze unchided deep in thy dear eyes | B |
| For in their depths lies largest Paradise | C |
| Yet if perchance one pressure of thy hand | A |
| Be granted me then joy I thought complete | D |
| Were still more sweet | D |
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| 'All that I ask ' says Love 'all that I ask | E |
| Is just thy hand clasp Could I brush thy cheek | F |
| As zephyrs brush a rose leaf words are weak | F |
| To tell the bliss in which my soul would bask | E |
| There is no language but would desecrate | G |
| A joy so great | G |
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| 'All that I ask is just one tender touch | H |
| Of that soft cheek Thy pulsing palm in mine | I |
| Thy dark eyes lifted in a trust divine | I |
| And those curled lips that tempt me overmuch | H |
| Turned where I may not seize the supreme bliss | J |
| Of one mad kiss | J |
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| 'All that I ask ' says Love 'of life of death | K |
| Or of high heaven itself is just to stand | A |
| Glance melting into glance hand twined in hand | A |
| The while I drink the nectar of thy breath | K |
| In one sweet kiss but one of all thy store | L |
| I ask no more ' | - |
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| 'All that I ask' nay self deceiving Love | M |
| Reverse thy phrase so thus the words may fall | N |
| In place of 'all I ask ' say 'I ask all ' | - |
| All that pertains to earth or soars above | M |
| All that thou wert art will be body soul | O |
| Love asks the whole | O |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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