Prothalamion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KJKJ HLML| When the evening came my love said to me | A |
| Let us go into the garden now that the sky is cool | B |
| The garden of black hellebore and rosemary | A |
| Where wild woodruff spills in a milky pool | B |
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| Low we passed in the twilight for the wavering heat | C |
| Of day had waned and round that shaded plot | D |
| Of secret beauty the thickets clustered sweet | C |
| Here is heaven our hearts whispered but our lips spake not | D |
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| Between that old garden and seas of lazy foam | E |
| Gloomy and beautiful alleys of trees arise | F |
| With spire of cypress and dreamy beechen dome | E |
| So dark that our enchanted sight knew nothing but the skies | F |
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| Veiled with a soft air drench'd in the roses' musk | G |
| Or the dusky dark carnation's breath of clove | H |
| No stars burned in their deeps but through the dusk | G |
| I saw my love's eyes and they were brimmed with love | H |
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| No star their secret ravished no wasting moon | I |
| Mocked the sad transience of those eternal hours | J |
| Only the soft unseeing heaven of June | I |
| The ghosts of great trees and the sleeping flowers | J |
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| For doves that crooned in the leafy noonday now | K |
| Were silent the night jar sought his secret covers | J |
| Nor even a mild sea whisper moved a creaking bough | K |
| Was ever a silence deeper made for lovers | J |
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| Was ever a moment meeter made for love | H |
| Beautiful are your closed lips beneath my kiss | L |
| And all your yielding sweetness beautiful | M |
| Oh never in all the world was such a night as this | L |
Francis Brett Young
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