Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDDC CECEFCCF GCGCHIIH JKJKCCCC CCCCLMML| Angelic theme of ancient lays | A |
| By Doric hills Athenian vales | B |
| The nations bound thy brows with bays | A |
| And fanned thy cheeks with scented gales | B |
| While golden lamps illumed thy shrines | C |
| Beside the Tiber and the Po | D |
| Till anthems thine were taught to flow | D |
| Along the Alps and Appenines | C |
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| The souls of sages and of slaves | C |
| Were faithful servants unto thee | E |
| Whose rapture soothed the Grecian waves | C |
| And kissed the islands of the sea | E |
| And bounding on from strand to strand | F |
| It crossed the coasts and climbed the slopes | C |
| To place a crown of tender hopes | C |
| Upon the vine clad Roman land | F |
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| Great empress of that early time | G |
| Glad ruler of the gentle souls | C |
| Each year is changed to raptured rhyme | G |
| That o'er thy laughing bosom rolls | C |
| For cycles as they sink to rest | H |
| So closely guard thy joy and truth | I |
| That fondness and immortal youth | I |
| Give sweet embraces to thy breast | H |
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| Thou goddess of the Paphian shrine | J |
| Cytheran queen of Ion's isle | K |
| Fair Venus from the land of wine | J |
| The races love thy dewy smile | K |
| While silent hills and dewy glades | C |
| Bear praises on each breeze that blows | C |
| Sweet as the breath of morning rose | C |
| That blossoms in the woodland shades | C |
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| Then crown O Love these later days | C |
| With mystic charms of wondrous bliss | C |
| That lived when thou wert wreathed with bays | C |
| And nations hungered for thy kiss | C |
| No more thy temples tower above | L |
| But lives and bosoms hold thee dear | M |
| Then come with all thy worth of cheer | M |
| And gentleness O mighty Love | L |
Freeman E. Miller
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