Love Triumphant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDAAAA EEFFGGHHIIJJ| Helen's lips are drifting dust | A |
| Ilion is consumed with rust | A |
| All the galleons of Greece | B |
| Drink the ocean's dreamless peace | B |
| Lost was Solomon's purple show | C |
| Restless centuries ago | C |
| Stately empires wax and wane | D |
| Babylon Barbary and Spain | D |
| Only one thing undefaced | A |
| Lasts though all the worlds lie waste | A |
| And the heavens are overturned | A |
| Dear how long ago we learned | A |
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| There's a sight that blinds the sun | E |
| Sound that lives when sounds are done | E |
| Music that rebukes the birds | F |
| Language lovelier than words | F |
| Hue and scent that shame the rose | G |
| Wine no earthly vineyard knows | G |
| Silence stiller than the shore | H |
| Swept by Charon's stealthy oar | H |
| Ocean more divinely free | I |
| Than Pacific's boundless sea | I |
| Ye who love have learned it true | J |
| Dear how long ago we knew | J |
Frederic Lawrence Knowles
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