Love's Defeat. (moods Of Love.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACC DCDCC ECECC FCFCC| A thousand times I would have hoped | A |
| A thousand times protested | B |
| But still as through the night I groped | A |
| My torch from me was wrested | C |
| and wrested | C |
| - | |
| How often with a succoring cup | D |
| Unto the hurt I hasted | C |
| The wounded died ere I came up | D |
| My cup was still untasted | C |
| Untasted | C |
| - | |
| Of darkness wounds and harsh disdain | E |
| Endured I ne'er repented | C |
| 'T is not of these I would complain | E |
| With these I were contented | C |
| Contented | C |
| - | |
| Here lies the misery to feel | F |
| No work of love completed | C |
| In prayerless passion still to kneel | F |
| And mourn and cry Defeated | C |
| Defeated | C |
George Parsons Lathrop
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