Penelope Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAB CCB DDB EEB F B GGB HHB IJB KKB| Love like a wind shook wide your blosmy eyes | A |
| You trembled and your breath came sobbing wise | A |
| For that you loved me | B |
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| You were so kind so sweet none could withhold | C |
| To adore but that you were so strange so cold | C |
| For that you loved me | B |
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| Like to a box of spikenard did you break | D |
| Your heart about my feet What words you spake | D |
| For that you loved me | B |
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| Life fell to dust without me so you tried | E |
| All carefullest ways to drive me from your side | E |
| For that you loved me | B |
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| You gave yourself as children give that weep | F |
| And snatch back with 'I meant you not to keep ' | - |
| For that you loved me | B |
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| I am no woman girl nor ever knew | G |
| That love could teach all ways that hate could do | G |
| To her that loved me | B |
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| Have less of love or less of woman in | H |
| Your love or loss may even from this begin | H |
| That you so love me | B |
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| For wild Penelope the web you wove | I |
| You still unweave unloving all your love | J |
| Is this to love me | B |
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| Or what rights have I that scorn could deny | K |
| Even of your love alas poor Love must die | K |
| If so you love me | B |
Francis Thompson
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