Modern Love Xvi: In Our Old Shipwrecked Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDCEFFFGHHG| In our old shipwrecked days there was an hour | A |
| When in the firelight steadily aglow | B |
| Joined slackly we beheld the red chasm grow | B |
| Among the clicking coals Our library bower | A |
| That eve was left to us and hushed we sat | C |
| As lovers to whom Time is whispering | D |
| From sudden opened doors we heard them sing | D |
| The nodding elders mixed good wine with chat | C |
| Well knew we that Life's greatest treasure lay | E |
| With us and of it was our talk Ah yes | F |
| Love dies I said I never thought it less | F |
| She yearned to me that sentence to unsay | F |
| Then when the fire domed blackening I found | G |
| Her cheek was salt against my kiss and swift | H |
| Up the sharp scale of sobs her breast did lift | H |
| Now am I haunted by that taste that sound | G |
George Meredith
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