Love That Lives Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKK KDKD| Dear face bright glinting hair | A |
| Dear life whose heart is mine | B |
| The thought of you is prayer | A |
| The love of you divine | B |
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| In starlight or in rain | C |
| In the sunset's shrouded glow | D |
| Ever with joy or pain | C |
| To you my quick thoughts go | D |
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| Like winds or clouds that fleet | E |
| Across the hungry space | F |
| Between and find you sweet | E |
| Where life again wins grace | F |
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| Now as in that once young | G |
| Year that so softly drew | H |
| My heart to where it clung | G |
| I long for gladden in you | H |
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| And when in the silent hours | I |
| I whisper your sacred name | J |
| Like an altar fire it showers | I |
| My blood with fragrant flame | J |
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| Perished is all that grieves | K |
| And lo our old new joys | L |
| Are gathered as in sheaves | K |
| Held in love's equipoise | K |
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| Ours is the love that lives | K |
| Its springtime blossoms blow | D |
| 'Mid the fruit that autumn gives | K |
| And its life outlasts the snow | D |
George Parsons Lathrop
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