The First Food Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EBBE DDDD FGGF HGGH| Mother in some sad evening long ago | A |
| From thy young breast my groping lips were taken | B |
| Their hunger stilled so soon again to waken | B |
| But nevermore that holy food to know | A |
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| Ah nevermore for all the child might crave | C |
| Ah nevermore through years unkind and dreary | D |
| Often of other fare my lips are weary | D |
| Unwearied once of what thy bosom gave | C |
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| Poor wordless mouth that could not speak thy name | E |
| At what unhappy revels has it eaten | B |
| The viands that no memory can sweeten | B |
| The banquet found eternally the same | E |
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| Then fell a shadow first on thee and me | D |
| And tendrils broke that held us two how dearly | D |
| Once infinitely thine then hourly yearly | D |
| Less thine as less the worthy thine to be | D |
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| O mouth that yet should kiss the mouth of Sin | F |
| Were lies so sweet now bitter to remember | G |
| Slow sinks the flame unfaithful to an ember | G |
| New beauty fades and passion's wine is thin | F |
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| How poor an end of that solicitude | H |
| And all the love I had not from another | G |
| Peace to thine unforgetting heart O Mother | G |
| Who gav'st the dear and unremembered food | H |
George Sterling
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