The Crown Of Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIHI JKJK LMLM CNCN OCOC PCPC| O might I load my arms with thee | A |
| Like that young lover of Romance | B |
| Who loved and gained so gloriously | A |
| The fair Princess of France | B |
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| Because he dared to love so high | C |
| He bearing her dear weight shall speed | D |
| To where the mountain touched on sky | C |
| So the proud king decreed | D |
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| Unhalting he must bear her on | E |
| Nor pause a space to gather breath | F |
| And on the height she will be won | G |
| And she was won in death | F |
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| Red the far summit flames with morn | H |
| While in the plain a glistening Court | I |
| Surrounds the king who practised scorn | H |
| Through such a mask of sport | I |
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| She leans into his arms she lets | J |
| Her lovely shape be clasped he fares | K |
| God speed him whole The knights make bets | J |
| The ladies lift soft prayers | K |
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| O have you seen the deer at chase | L |
| O have you seen the wounded kite | M |
| So boundingly he runs the race | L |
| So wavering grows his flight | M |
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| My lover linger here and slake | C |
| Thy thirst or me thou wilt not win | N |
| See'st thou the tumbled heavens they break | C |
| They beckon us up and in | N |
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| Ah hero love unloose thy hold | O |
| O drop me like a cursed thing | C |
| See'st thou the crowded swards of gold | O |
| They wave to us Rose and Ring | C |
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| O death white mouth O cast me down | P |
| Thou diest Then with thee I die | C |
| See'st thou the angels with their Crown | P |
| We twain have reached the sky | C |
George Meredith
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