Angelic Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDDEEFFGGGHHIII JKJKIGGLMGIIIAngelic love that stoops with heavenly lips | A |
To meet its earthly mate | B |
Heroic love that to its sphere's eclipse | A |
Can dare to join its fate | B |
With one beloved devoted human heart | C |
And share with it the passion and the smart | C |
The undying bliss | D |
Of its most fleeting kiss | D |
The fading grace | E |
Of its most sweet embrace | E |
Angelic love heroic love | F |
Whose birth can only be above | F |
Whose wandering must be on earth | G |
Whose haven where it first had birth | G |
Love that can part with all but its own worth | G |
And joy in every sacrifice | H |
That beautifies its Paradise | H |
And gently like a golden fruited vine | I |
With earnest tenderness itself consign | I |
And creeping up deliriously entwine | I |
Its dear delicious arms | J |
Round the beloved being | K |
With fair unfolded charms | J |
All trusting and all seeing | K |
Grape laden with full bunches of young wine | I |
While to the panting heart's dry yearning drouth | G |
Buds the rich dewy mouth | G |
Tenderly uplifted | L |
Like two rose leaves drifted | M |
Down in a long warm sigh of the sweet South | G |
Such love such love is thine | I |
Such heart is mine | I |
O thou of mortal visions most divine | I |
George Meredith
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