Love's Almsman Plaineth His Fare Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDECEFGFGDHDHIJIJ KLKLMNMNOPOPJJ| O you love's mendicancy who never tried | A |
| How little of your almsman me you know | B |
| Your little languid hand in mine you slide | A |
| Like to a child says 'Kiss me and let me go ' | C |
| And night for this is fretted with my tears | D |
| While I 'How soon this heavenly neck doth tire | E |
| Bending to me from its transtellar spheres ' | C |
| Ah heart all kneaded out of honey and fire | E |
| Who bound thee to a body nothing worth | F |
| And shamed thee much with an unlovely soul | G |
| That the most strainedest charity of earth | F |
| Distasteth soon to render back the whole | G |
| Of thine inflam ed sweets and gentilesse | D |
| Whereat like an unpastured Titan thou | H |
| Gnaw'st on thyself for famine's bitterness | D |
| And leap'st against thy chain Sweet Lady how | H |
| Little a linking of the hand to you | I |
| Though I should touch yours careless for a year | J |
| Not one blue vein would lie divinelier blue | I |
| Upon your fragile temple to unsphere | J |
| The seraphim for kisses Not one curve | K |
| Of your sad mouth would droop more sad and sweet | L |
| But little food love's beggars needs must serve | K |
| That eye your plenteous graces from the street | L |
| A hand clasp I must feed on for a night | M |
| A noon although the untasted feast you lay | N |
| To mock me of your beauty That you might | M |
| Be lover for one space and make essay | N |
| What 'tis to pass unsuppered to your couch | O |
| Keep fast from love all day and so be taught | P |
| The famine which these craving lines avouch | O |
| Ah miser of good things that cost thee naught | P |
| How know'st thou poor men's hunger Misery | J |
| When I go doleless and unfed by thee | J |
Francis Thompson
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