My Lady The Tyranness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBBBB CDEEBFFB DDDDBBBB DDDDBGGB HHIIBBBB JJDDBJJB KKBBBBBB DDCCBDDB DCLLBMMB DNNBCCB| Me since your fair ambition bows | A |
| Feodary to those gracious brows | A |
| Is nothing mine will not confess | B |
| Your sovran sweet rapaciousness | B |
| Though use to the white yoke inures | B |
| Half petulant is | B |
| Your loving rebel for somewhat his | B |
| Not yours my love not yours | B |
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| Behold my skies which make with me | C |
| One passionate tranquillity | D |
| Wrap thyself in them as a robe | E |
| She shares them not their azures probe | E |
| No countering wings thy flight endures | B |
| Nay they do stole | F |
| Me like an aura of her soul | F |
| I yield them love for yours | B |
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| But mine these hills and fields which put | D |
| Not on the sanctity of her foot | D |
| Far off my dear far off the sweet | D |
| Grave pianissimo of your feet | D |
| My earth perchance your sway abjures | B |
| Your absence broods | B |
| O'er all a subtler presence Woods | B |
| Fields hills all yours all yours | B |
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| Nay then I said I have my thought | D |
| Which never woman's reaching raught | D |
| Being strong beyond a woman's might | D |
| And high beyond a woman's height | D |
| Shaped to my shape in all contours | B |
| I looked and knew | G |
| No thought but you were garden to | G |
| All yours my love all yours | B |
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| Meseemeth still I have my life | H |
| All clement Her its resolute strife | H |
| Evades contained relinquishing | I |
| Her mitigating eyes a thing | I |
| Which the whole girth of God secures | B |
| Ah fool pause pause | B |
| I had no life until it was | B |
| All yours my love all yours | B |
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| Yet stern possession I have my death | J |
| Sole yielding up of my sole breath | J |
| Which all within myself I die | D |
| All in myself must cry the cry | D |
| Which the deaf body's wall immures | B |
| Thought fashioneth | J |
| My death without her Ah even death | J |
| All yours my love all yours | B |
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| Death then he hers I have my heaven | K |
| For which no arm of hers has striven | K |
| Which solitary I must choose | B |
| And solitary win or lose | B |
| Ah but not heaven my own endures | B |
| I must perforce | B |
| Taste you my stream in God your source | B |
| So steep my heaven in yours | B |
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| At last I said I have my God | D |
| Who doth desire me though a clod | D |
| And from His liberal Heaven shall He | C |
| Bar in mine arms His privacy | C |
| Himself for mine Himself assures | B |
| None shall deny | D |
| God to be mine but He and I | D |
| All yours my love all yours | B |
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| I have no fear at all lest I | D |
| Without her draw felicity | C |
| God for His Heaven will not forego | L |
| Her whom I found such heaven below | L |
| And she will train Him to her lures | B |
| Nought lady I love | M |
| In you but more is loved above | M |
| What made me makes Him yours | B |
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| 'I thy sought own am I forgot ' | - |
| Ha thou thou liest I seek thee not | D |
| Why what thou painted parrot Fame | N |
| What have I taught thee but her name | N |
| Hear thou slave Fame while Time endures | B |
| I give her thee | C |
| Page her triumphal name Lady | C |
| Take her the thrall is yours | B |
Francis Thompson
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