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Modern Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I	A
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By this he knew she wept with waking eyes	B
That at his hand's light quiver by her head	C
The strange low sobs that shook their common bed	C
Were called into her with a sharp surprise	B
And strangled mute like little gaping snakes	D
Dreadfully venomous to him She lay	E
Stone still and the long darkness flowed away	E
With muffled pulses Then as midnight makes	D
Her giant heart of Memory and Tears	F
Drink the pale drug of silence and so beat	G
Sleep's heavy measure they from head to feet	G
Were moveless looking through their dead black years	H
By vain regret scrawled over the blank wall	I
Like sculptured effigies they might be seen	J
Upon their marriage tomb the sword between	J
Each wishing for the sword that severs all	I
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II	A
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It ended and the morrow brought the task	K
Her eyes were guilty gates that let him in	L
By shutting all too zealous for their sin	L
Each sucked a secret and each wore a mask	K
But oh the bitter taste her beauty had	M
He sickened as at breath of poison flowers	N
A languid humour stole among the hours	N
And if their smiles encountered he went mad	M
And raged deep inward till the light was brown	O
Before his vision and the world forgot	P
Looked wicked as some old dull murder spot	P
A star with lurid beams she seemed to crown	O
The pit of infamy and then again	Q
He fainted on his vengefulness and strove	R
To ape the magnanimity of love	S
And smote himself a shuddering heap of pain	T
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III	A
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This was the woman what now of the man	U
But pass him If he comes beneath a heel	V
He shall be crushed until he cannot feel	V
Or being callous haply till he can	U
But he is nothing nothing Only mark	W
The rich light striking out from her on him	X
Ha what a sense it is when her eyes swim	X
Across the man she singles leaving dark	W
All else Lord God who mad'st the thing so fair	Y
See that I am drawn to her even now	Z
It cannot be such harm on her cool brow	Z
To put a kiss Yet if I meet him there	Y
But she is mine Ah no I know too well	A2
I claim a star whose light is overcast	B2
I claim a phantom woman in the Past	B2
The hour has struck though I heard not the bell	A2
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IV	S
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All other joys of life he strove to warm	C2
And magnify and catch them to his lip	D2
But they had suffered shipwreck with the ship	D2
And gazed upon him sallow from the storm	C2
Or if Delusion came 'twas but to show	E2
The coming minute mock the one that went	F2
Cold as a mountain in its star pitched tent	F2
Stood high Philosophy less friend than foe	E2
Whom self caged Passion from its prison bars	G2
Is always watching with a wondering hate	H2
Not till the fire is dying in the grate	H2
Look we for any kinship with the stars	G2
Oh wisdom never comes when it is gold	I2
And the great price we pay for it full worth	J2
We have it only when we are half earth	J2
Little avails that coinage to the old	I2
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V	S
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A message from her set his brain aflame	K2
A world of household matters filled her mind	L2
Wherein he saw hypocrisy designed	L2
She treated him as something that is tame	K2
And but at other provocation bites	M2
Familiar was her shoulder in the glass	N2
Through that dark rain yet it may come to pass	N2
That a changed eye finds such familiar sights	M2
More keenly tempting than new loveliness	M2
The 'What has been' a moment seemed his own	O2
The splendours mysteries dearer because known	O2
Nor less divine Love's inmost sacredness	M2
Called to him 'Come ' In his restraining start	P2
Eyes nurtured to be looked at scarce could see	M2
A wave of the great waves of Destiny	M2
Convulsed at a checked impulse of the heart	P2
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VI	S
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It chanced his lips did meet her forehead cool	Q2
She had no blush but slanted down her eye	S
Shamed nature then confesses love can die	S
And most she punishes the tender fool	Q2
Who will believe what honours her the most	R2
Dead is it dead She has a pulse and flow	E2
Of tears the price of blood drops as I know	E2
For whom the midnight sobs around Love's ghost	R2
Since then I heard her and so will sob on	S2
The love is here it has but changed its aim	K2
O bitter barren woman what's the name	K2
The name the name the new name thou hast won	T2
Behold me striking the world's coward stroke	U2
That will I not do though the sting is dire	V2
Beneath the surface this while by the fire	W2
They sat she laughing at a quiet joke	U2
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VII	S
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She issues radiant from her dressing room	X2
Like one prepared to scale an upper sphere	Y2
By stirring up a lower much I fear	Y2
How deftly that oiled barber lays his bloom	X2
That long shanked dapper Cupid with frisked curls	M2
Can make known women torturingly fair	Y
The gold eyed serpent dwelling in rich hair	Y
Awakes beneath his magic whisks and twirls	M2
His art can take the eyes from out my head	C
Until I see with eyes of other men	Q
While deeper knowledge crouches in its den	Q
And sends a spark up is it true we are wed	C
Yea filthiness of body is most vile	Z2
But faithlessness of heart I do hold worse	M2
The former it were not so great a curse	M2
To read on the steel mirror of her smile	Z2
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VIII	S
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Yet it was plain she struggled and that salt	A3
Of righteous feeling made her pitiful	B3
Poor twisting worm so queenly beautiful	B3
Where came the cleft between us whose the fault	A3
My tears are on thee that have rarely dropped	C3
As balm for any bitter wound of mine	D3
My breast will open for thee at a sign	D3
But no we are two reed pipes coarsely stopped	C3
The God once filled them with his mellow breath	E3
And they were music till he flung them down	O
Used used Hear now the discord loving clown	O
Puff his gross spirit in them worse than death	E3
I do not know myself without thee more	F3
In this unholy battle I grow base	M2
If the same soul be under the same face	M2
Speak and a taste of that old time restore	F3
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IX	M2
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He felt the wild beast in him betweenwhiles	M2
So masterfully rude that he would grieve	S
To see the helpless delicate thing receive	S
His guardianship through certain dark defiles	M2
Had he not teeth to rend and hunger too	G3
But still he spared her Once 'Have you no fear '	-
He said 'twas dusk she in his grasp none near	Y2
She laughed 'No surely am I not with you '	-
And uttering that soft starry 'you ' she leaned	H3
Her gentle body near him looking up	I3
And from her eyes as from a poison cup	I3
He drank until the flittering eyelids screened	H3
Devilish malignant witch and oh young beam	J3
Of heaven's circle glory Here thy shape	K3
To squeeze like an intoxicating grape	K3
I might and yet thou goest safe supreme	J3
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X	M2
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But where began the change and what's my crime	L3
The wretch condemned who has not been arraigned	M3
Chafes at his sentence Shall I unsustained	M3
Drag on Love's nerveless body thro' all time	L3
I must have slept since now I wake Prepare	Y
You lovers to know Love a thing of moods	M2
Not like hard life of laws In Love's deep woods	M2
I dreamt of loyal Life the offence is there	Y
Love's jealous woods about the sun are curled	M3
At least the sun far brighter there did beam	J3
My crime is that the puppet of a dream	J3
I plotted to be worthy of the world	M3
Oh had I with my darling helped to mince	M2
The facts of life you still had seen me go	E2
With hindward feather and with forward toe	E2
Her much adored delightful Fairy Prince	M2
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XI	M2
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Out in the yellow meadows where the bee	M2
Hums by us with the honey of the Spring	N3
And showers of sweet notes from the larks on wing	N3
Are dropping like a noon dew wander we	M2
Or is it now or was it then for now	Z
As then the larks from running rings pour showers	M2
The golden foot of May is on the flowers	M2
And friendly shadows dance upon her brow	Z
What's this when Nature swears there is no change	O3
To challenge eyesight Now as then the grace	M2
Of heaven seems holding earth in its embrace	M2
Nor eyes nor heart has she to feel it strange	O3
Look woman in the West There wilt thou see	M2
An amber cradle near the sun's decline	D3
Within it featured even in death divine	D3
Is lying a dead infant slain by thee	M2
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XII	M2
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Not solely that the Future she destroys	M2
And the fair life	S