The Way Of A Maid Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFFGGHHIJJJKK LLMNOPQQ| The lover whose soul shaken is | A |
| In some decuman billow of bliss | B |
| Who feels his gradual wading feet | C |
| Sink in some sudden hollow of sweet | C |
| And 'mid love's us ed converse comes | D |
| Sharp on a mood which all joy sums | D |
| An instant's fine compendium of | E |
| The liberal leav ed writ of love | E |
| His abashed pulses beating thick | F |
| At the exigent joy and quick | F |
| Is dumbed by aiming utterance great | G |
| Up to the miracle of his fate | G |
| The wise girl such Icarian fall | H |
| Saved by her confidence that she's small | H |
| As what no kindred word will fit | I |
| Is uttered best by opposite | J |
| Love in the tongue of hate exprest | J |
| And deepest anguish in a jest | J |
| Feeling the infinite must be | K |
| Best said by triviality | K |
| Speaks where expression bates its wings | L |
| Just happy alien little things | L |
| What of all words is in excess | M |
| Implies in a sweet nothingness | N |
| With dailiest babble shows her sense | O |
| That full speech were full impotence | P |
| And while she feels the heavens lie bare | Q |
| She only talks about her hair | Q |
Francis Thompson
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