A Ballad Of Kisses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCC A DEDEE A FGHGG| I | A |
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| There are three kisses that I call to mind | B |
| And I will sing their secrets as I go | C |
| The first a kiss too courteous to be kind | B |
| Was such a kiss as monks and maidens know | C |
| As sharp as frost as blameless as the snow | C |
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| II | A |
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| The second kiss ah God I feel it yet | D |
| And evermore my soul will loathe the same | E |
| The toys and joys of fate I may forget | D |
| But not the touch of that divided shame | E |
| It clove my lips it burnt me like a flame | E |
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| III | A |
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| The third the final kiss is one I use | F |
| Morning and noon and night and not amiss | G |
| Sorrow be mine if such I do refuse | H |
| And when I die be love enrapt in bliss | G |
| Re sanctified in Heaven by such a kiss | G |
Eric Mackay
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