How Does Love Speak? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBA AACCDDA AAEFEGGA AAHHIIJJA AAHHKKLLMMA| In the faint flush upon the tell tale cheek | A |
| And in the pallor that succeeds it by | B |
| The quivering lid of an averted eye | B |
| The smile that proves the parent of a sigh | B |
| Thus doth Love speak | A |
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| How does Love speak | A |
| By the uneven heart throbs and the freak | A |
| Of bounding pulses that stand still and ache | C |
| While new emotions like strange barges make | C |
| Along vein channels their disturbing course | D |
| Still as the dawn and with the dawn's swift force | D |
| Thus doth Love speak | A |
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| How does Love speak | A |
| In the avoidance of that which we seek | A |
| The sudden silence and reserve when near | E |
| The eye that glistens with an unshed tear | F |
| The joy that seems the counterpart of fear | E |
| As the alarmed heart leads in the breast | G |
| And knows and names and greets its godlike guest | G |
| Thus doth Love speak | A |
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| How does Love speak | A |
| In the proud spirit suddenly grown meek | A |
| The haughty heart grown humble in the tender | H |
| And unnamed light that floods the world with splendour | H |
| In the resemblance which the fond eyes trace | I |
| In all fair things to one beloved face | I |
| In the shy touch of hands that thrill and tremble | J |
| In looks and lips that can no more dissemble | J |
| Thus doth Love speak | A |
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| How does Love speak | A |
| In wild words that uttered seem so weak | A |
| They shrink ashamed to silence in the fire | H |
| Glance strikes with glance swift flashing high and higher | H |
| Like lightnings that precede the mighty storm | K |
| In the deep soulful stillness in the warm | K |
| Impassioned tide that sweeps thro' throbbing veins | L |
| Between the shores of keen delights and pains | L |
| In the embrace where madness melts in bliss | M |
| And in the convulsive rapture of a kiss | M |
| Thus doth Love speak | A |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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