Love's Supremacy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCC DEDECFCF CGCGCECE CHCHDIDI| As yon great Sun in his supreme condition | A |
| Absorbs small worlds and makes them all his own | B |
| So does my love absorb each vain ambition | A |
| Each outside purpose which my life has known | B |
| Stars cannot shine so near that vast orb's splendor | C |
| They are content to feed his flames of fire | C |
| And so my heart is satisfied to render | C |
| Its strength its all to meet thy strong desire | C |
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| As in a forest when dead leaves are falling | D |
| From all save some perennial green tree | E |
| So one by one I find all pleasures palling | D |
| That are not linked with or enjoyed by thee | E |
| And all the homage that the world may proffer | C |
| I take as perfumed oils or incense sweet | F |
| And think of it as one thing more to offer | C |
| And sacrifice to Love at thy dear feet | F |
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| I love myself because thou art my lover | C |
| My name seems dear since uttered by thy voice | G |
| Yet argus eyed I watch and would discover | C |
| Each blemish in the object of thy choice | G |
| I coldly sit in judgment on each error | C |
| To my soul's gaze I hold each fault of me | E |
| Until my pride is lost in abject terror | C |
| Lest I become inadequate to thee | E |
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| Like some swift rushing and sea seeking river | C |
| Which gathers force the farther on it goes | H |
| So does the current of my love forever | C |
| Find added strength and beauty as it flows | H |
| The more I give the more remains for giving | D |
| The more receive the more remains to win | I |
| Ah only in eternities of living | D |
| Will life be long enough to love thee in | I |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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