The Hueless Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHI JKKJ LMML NOON PQQP| Unto that love must we through fire attain | A |
| Which those two held as breath of common air | B |
| The hands of whom were given in bond elsewhere | B |
| Whom Honour was untroubled to restrain | A |
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| Midway the road of our life's term they met | C |
| And one another knew without surprise | D |
| Nor cared that beauty stood in mutual eyes | D |
| Nor at their tardy meeting nursed regret | C |
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| To them it was revealed how they had found | E |
| The kindred nature and the needed mind | F |
| The mate by long conspiracy designed | F |
| The flower to plant in sanctuary ground | E |
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| Avowed in vigilant solicitude | G |
| For either what most lived within each breast | H |
| They let be seen yet every human test | H |
| Demanding righteousness approved them good | I |
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| She leaned on a strong arm and little feared | J |
| Abandonment to help if heaved or sank | K |
| Her heart at intervals while Love looked blank | K |
| Life rosier were she but less revered | J |
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| An arm that never shook did not obscure | L |
| Her woman's intuition of the bliss | M |
| Their tempter's moment o'er the black abyss | M |
| Across the narrow plank he could abjure | L |
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| Then came a day that clipped for him the thread | N |
| And their first touch of lips as he lay cold | O |
| Was all of earthly in their love untold | O |
| Beyond all earthly known to them who wed | N |
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| So has there come the gust at South west flung | P |
| By sudden volt on eves of freezing mist | Q |
| When sister snowflake sister snowdrop kissed | Q |
| And one passed out and one the bell head hung | P |
George Meredith
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