Before Her Portrait In Youth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBCDEEDCDFDGHHIJI HKKJLJLMMNNNOOOODDPP DMQLLRMHHOOOOO| As lovers banished from their lady's face | A |
| And hopeless of her grace | A |
| Fashion a ghostly sweetness in its place | A |
| Fondly adore | B |
| Some stealth won cast attire she wore | B |
| A kerchief or a glove | C |
| And at the lover's beck | D |
| Into the glove there fleets the hand | E |
| Or at impetuous command | E |
| Up from the kerchief floats the virgin neck | D |
| So I in very lowlihead of love | C |
| Too shyly reverencing | D |
| To let one thought's light footfall smooth | F |
| Tread near the living consecrated thing | D |
| Treasure me thy cast youth | G |
| This outworn vesture tenantless of thee | H |
| Hath yet my knee | H |
| For that with show and semblance fair | I |
| Of the past Her | J |
| Who once the beautiful discarded raiment bare | I |
| It cheateth me | H |
| As gale to gale drifts breath | K |
| Of blossoms' death | K |
| So dropping down the years from hour to hour | J |
| This dead youth's scent is wafted me to day | L |
| I sit and from the fragrance dream the flower | J |
| So then she looked I say | L |
| And so her front sunk down | M |
| Heavy beneath the poet's iron crown | M |
| On her mouth museful sweet | N |
| Even as the twin lips meet | N |
| Did thought and sadness greet | N |
| Sighs | O |
| In those mournful eyes | O |
| So put on visibilities | O |
| As viewless ether turns in deep on deep to dyes | O |
| Thus long ago | D |
| She kept her meditative paces slow | D |
| Through maiden meads with waved shadow and gleam | P |
| Of locks half lifted on the winds of dream | P |
| Till love up caught her to his chariot's glow | D |
| Yet voluntary happier Proserpine | M |
| This drooping flower of youth thou lettest fall | Q |
| I faring in the cockshut light astray | L |
| Find on my 'lated way | L |
| And stoop and gather for memorial | R |
| And lay it on my bosom and make it mine | M |
| To this the all of love the stars allow me | H |
| I dedicate and vow me | H |
| I reach back through the days | O |
| A trothed hand to the dead the last trump shall not raise | O |
| The water wraith that cries | O |
| From those eternal sorrows of thy pictured eyes | O |
| Entwines and draws me down their soundless intricacies | O |
Francis Thompson
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