Before Her Portrait In Youth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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As lovers banished from their lady's faceA
And hopeless of her graceA
Fashion a ghostly sweetness in its placeA
Fondly adoreB
Some stealth won cast attire she woreB
A kerchief or a gloveC
And at the lover's beckD
Into the glove there fleets the handE
Or at impetuous commandE
Up from the kerchief floats the virgin neckD
So I in very lowlihead of loveC
Too shyly reverencingD
To let one thought's light footfall smoothF
Tread near the living consecrated thingD
Treasure me thy cast youthG
This outworn vesture tenantless of theeH
Hath yet my kneeH
For that with show and semblance fairI
Of the past HerJ
Who once the beautiful discarded raiment bareI
It cheateth meH
As gale to gale drifts breathK
Of blossoms' deathK
So dropping down the years from hour to hourJ
This dead youth's scent is wafted me to dayL
I sit and from the fragrance dream the flowerJ
So then she looked I sayL
And so her front sunk downM
Heavy beneath the poet's iron crownM
On her mouth museful sweetN
Even as the twin lips meetN
Did thought and sadness greetN
SighsO
In those mournful eyesO
So put on visibilitiesO
As viewless ether turns in deep on deep to dyesO
Thus long agoD
She kept her meditative paces slowD
Through maiden meads with waved shadow and gleamP
Of locks half lifted on the winds of dreamP
Till love up caught her to his chariot's glowD
Yet voluntary happier ProserpineM
This drooping flower of youth thou lettest fallQ
I faring in the cockshut light astrayL
Find on my 'lated wayL
And stoop and gather for memorialR
And lay it on my bosom and make it mineM
To this the all of love the stars allow meH
I dedicate and vow meH
I reach back through the daysO
A trothed hand to the dead the last trump shall not raiseO
The water wraith that criesO
From those eternal sorrows of thy pictured eyesO
Entwines and draws me down their soundless intricaciesO

Francis Thompson



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