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Songs From The Turret. (from "three Women") Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I	A
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In the day my thoughts are tender	B
When I muse on my ladye fair	C
There is never one to offend her	B
For each is pure as a prayer	C
They float like spirits above her	B
About her and always near	D
And they scarce dare sigh that they love her	B
Because she would blush to hear	E
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But in dreams my thoughts grow bolder	B
And close to my lips of fire	B
I reach out my arms and enfold her	B
My ladye my heart's desire	B
And she who in earthly places	F
Seems cold as the stars above	G
Unmasks in those fair dream spaces	F
And gives me love for love	G
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Oh day with your thoughts of duty	H
Cross over the sunset streams	I
And give me the night of beauty	H
And love in the Land of Dreams	I
For there in the mystic shady	H
Fair isle of the Slumber Sea	H
I read the heart of my ladye	J
That here she hides from me	H
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II	A
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Some day some beauteous day	K
Joy will come back again	L
Sorrow must fly away	K
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Hope on her harp will play	K
The old inspiring strain	M
Some day some beauteous day	K
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Through the long hours I say	K
The night must fade and wane	M
Sorrow must fly away	K
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The morn's bewildering ray	K
Shall pierce the night of rain	M
Some day some beauteous day	K
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Autumn shall bloom like May	K
Delight shall spring from pain	M
Sorrow must fly away	K
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Though on my life grief's gray	K
Bleak shadow long hath lain	M
Some day some beauteous day	K
Sorrow must fly away	K
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III	A
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When love is lost the day sets toward the night	N
Albeit the morning sun may still be bright	N
And not one cloud ship sails across the sky	A
Yet from the places where it used to lie	A
Gone is the lustrous glory of the light	N
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No splendor rests on any mountain height	N
No scene spreads fair and beauteous to the sight	N
All all seems dull and dreary to the eye	A
When love is lost	O
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Love lends to life its grandeur and its might	N
Love goes and leaves behind it gloom and blight	N
Like ghosts of time the pallid hours drag by	A
And grief's one happy thought is that we die	A
Ah what can recompense us for its flight	N
When love is lost	O
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IV	G
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Life is a ponderous lesson book and Fate	P
The teacher When I came to love's fair leaf	G
My teacher turned the page and bade me wait	P
Learn first she said love's grief	G
And o'er and o'er through many a long to morrow	Q
She kept me conning that sad page of sorrow	Q
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Cruel the task and yet it was not vain	M
Now the great book of life I know by heart	R
In that one lesson of love's loss and pain	M
Fate doth the whole impart	R
For by the depths of woe the mind can measure	B
The beauteous unsealed summits of love's pleasure	B
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Now with the book of life upon her knee	H
Fate sits the unread page of love's delight	N
By her firm hand is half concealed from me	H
And half revealed to sight	N
Ah Fate be kind so well I learned love's sorrow	Q
Give me its full delight to learn to morrow	Q
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V	H
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If I were a rain drop and you were a leaf	G
I would burst from the cloud above you	J
And lie on your breast in a rapture of rest	S
And love you love you love you	J
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If I were a brown bee and you were a rose	T
I would fly to you love nor miss you	J
I would sip and sip from your nectared lip	U
And kiss you kiss you kiss you	J
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If I were a doe dear and you were a brook	V
Ah what would I do then think you	J
I would kneel by your bank in the grasses dank	W
And drink you drink you drink you	J
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VI	G
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Time owes me such a heavy debt	X
How can he ever make things right	N
For suns that with no promise set	X
To help me greet the morning light	N
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For dreams that no fruition met	X
For joys that passed from bud to blight	N
Time owes me such a heavy debt	X
How can he ever make things right	N
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For passions balked with strain and fret	X
Of hopes delayed or perished quite	N
For kisses that I did not get	X
On many a love impelling night	N
Time owes me such a heavy debt	X
How can he ever make things right	N
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VII	G
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As the king bird feeds on the heart of the bee	H
So would I feed on the sweets of thee	H
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As the south wind kisses the leaf at will	Y
From the leaf of thy lips I would drink my fill	Y
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As the sun pries into the heart of a rose	T
I would pry in thy heart and its thoughts disclose	T
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As a dewdrop mirrors the loving sky	G
I would see myself in thy tear wet eye	G
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As the deep night shelters the day in its arms	Z
I would hide thee dear from the world's alarms	Z
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VIII	G
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Now do I know how Paradise doth seem	A2
Now do I know the deep red depths of hell	B2
Swift from those fair supernal heights I fell	B2
To burning flames of hades in a dream	A2
Methought my ladye rested by a stream	A2
Which rippled through the verdure of a dell	B2
She lay like Eve dear God I dare not tell	B2
Of her perfections of the glow and gleam	A2
Of tinted flesh and undulating hair	C
Of sudden thigh and sweetly rounded breast	S
Then like a cloud he came from God knows where	C
And on her eyes and mouth mad kisses pressed	S
I fell and fell through leagues of scorching space	C2
And always saw his lips upon her face	C2
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IX	C2
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Love is the source of all supreme delight	N
Love is the bitter fountain of despair	C
Who follows Love shall stand upon the height	N
Yet through the darkest depths Love too leads there	C
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Courage needs he who would with bold Love fare	C
Let him set forth with all his strength bedight	N
Yet in his heart this song to banish care	C
Love is the source of all supreme delight	N
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And he must sing this song both day and night	N
Though he be led down shadowy pathways where	C
Black waters moan through valleys struck with blight	N
Love is the bitter fountain of despair	C
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Let him be brave and bravely let him dare	C
Whate'er betide and feel no coward fright	N
Who shares the worst the best deserves to share	C
Who follows Love shall stand upon the height	N
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Ah sweet is peace to those who faced the fight	N
And bright the crown those faithful ones shall wear	C
Who whispered when the shadows veiled their sight	N
Yet through the darkest depths Love too leads there	C
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To hearts that best know Love his dark is fair	C
His sorrow gladness and his wrong is right	N
All joys lie waiting on his winding stair	C
All ways ail paths of Love lead to the light	N
Love is the source	C2
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X	C2
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My ladye's eyes are wishing wells	C2
Wherein I gaze with silent yearning	D2
Deep in their depths my future dwells	C2
My ladye's eyes are wishing wells	C2
But not one sign my fate foretells	C2
While my poor heart with love is burning	D2
My ladye's eyes are wishing wells	C2
Wherein I gaze with silent yearning	D2
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XI	C2
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Three things my ladye seemeth like to me	C2
She seems like moonlight on a waveless sea	C2
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And like the delicate fragrance which exhales	C2
When Day's warm garments brush the dewy vales	C2
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And when my heart grows weary of earth's sound	N
She seems like silence restful and profound	N
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XII	C2
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The moon flower grown from a slip so slender	B
Has burst in a star bloom full and white	N
The air is filled with a perfume tender	B
The breath that blows from that garden height	N
Yet moments lag that should take their flight	N
On wings like the wings of a homing dove	G
And the world goes wrong where it should go right	N
For this is a night that is lost to love	G
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Again like a queen who would rashly spend her	B
Dower of wealth in a single night	N
The proud moon seems on her track of splendor	B
Enriching the world with her silver light	N
She flings on the crest of each billow a bright	N
Pure gem from the casket of jewels above	G
But I sigh as I gaze on the glorious sight	N
This is a night that is lost to love	G
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Oh I would that the moon might never wend her	B
Way through the skies in royal might	N
Till the haughty heart of my lady surrender	B
And the faithful love of a life requite	N
For the moon was made for a lover's delight	N
And grayer than gloom must its luster prove	G
To the soul that sighs under sorrow's blight	N
This is a night that is lost to love	G
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L'Envoi	G
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Fate have pity upon my plight	N
And the heart of my lady to mercy move	G
For the saddest words that youth can write	N
Are This is a night that is lost to love	G
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XIII	C2
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As the waves of the outgoing sea	C2
Leave the rocks and the drift wood bare	C
When your thoughts are for others than me	C2
My heart is the strand of despair	C
Beloved	N
Where bleak suns glare	C
And Joy like a desolate mourner gropes	C2
In the wrecks of broken hopes	C2
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As the incoming waves of the sea	C2
The rocks and the sandbar hide	N
When your thoughts flow back to me	C2
My heart leaps up on the tide	N
Beloved	N
Where my glad hopes ride	N
With joy at the wheel and the sun above	G
In a glorious sky of love	G
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XIV	G
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There was a bard all in the olden time	E2
When bards were men to whom the world gave ear	E
And song an art the great gods deemed sublime	E2
Who sought to make his willful lady hear	E
By weaving strange new melodies of rhyme	E2
Which voiced his love his sorrow and his fear	D
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Sweetheart my soul is heavy now with fear	D
Lest thou shalt frown upon me for all time	E2
Ah would that I had skill to weave a rhyme	E2
Worthy to win the favor of thine ear	E
Tho' all the world were deaf if thou didst hear	E
And smile my song would seem to me sublime	E2
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But ah too vast too awful and sublime	E2
Is my great passion born of grief and fear	D
To clothe in verse Why if the world could hear	E
And understand my love then for all time	E2
So long as there was sound or listening ear	E
All space would ring and echo with my rhyme	E2
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Such passion seems belittled by a rhyme	E2
It needs the voice of nature The sublime	E2
Loud thunder crash that hurts the startled ear	E
And stirs the heart with awe akin to fear	D
The weird wild winds of equinoctial time	E2
These voices tell my love wouldst thou but hear	E
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And listening at the flood tides thou might'st hear	E
The love I bear thee surging through the rhyme	E2
Of breaking billows many a moon full time	E2
Why I have heard thee call the sea sublime	E2
When every wave but voiced the anguished fear	D
Of my man's heart to thy unconscious ear	E
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Vain then the hope that thou wilt lend thine ear	E
To any song of mine or deign to hear	E
My lays of longing or my strains of fear	D
Vain is the hope to weave for thee a rhyme	E2
Or sweet or sad or subtle or sublime	E2
Which wins thy gracious favor for all time	E2
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Oh cruel time my lady will not hear	E
Though in her ear love sings a song sublime	E2
And my sad rhyme ends like my love in fear	D
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Bright like the comforting blaze on the hearth	F2
Sweet like the blooms on the young apple tree	C2
Fragrant with promise of fruit yet to be	C2
Are the home keeping maidens of earth	G2
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Better and greater than talent is worth	G2
And where is the glory of brush or of pen	L
Like the glory of mothers and molders of men	L
The home keeping women of earth	G2
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Crowned since the great solar system had birth	G2
They reign unsurpassed in their beautiful sphere	D
They are queens who can look in God's face without fear	D
The home keeping women of earth	G2