Love And Fancy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBD EFEF CGCG HIHI CJCJ KLML KNKN OJOJ PQPQ RSRS JTQT JUJU VWVW XYXZ LKQK| Whenever amid bow'rs of myrtle | A |
| Love summer tressed and vernal eyed | B |
| At morn or eve is seen to wander | C |
| A dark haired girl is at his side | B |
| De La Hogue | D |
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| One morn just as day in the far east was breaking | E |
| Young Love who all night had been roving about | F |
| A charming siesta was quietly taking | E |
| His strength by his rambles completely worn out | F |
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| Round his brow a wreath woven of every flower | C |
| That springs from the hillside or valley was bound | G |
| In his hand was a rose he had stol'n from some bower | C |
| While his bow and his quiver lay near on the ground | G |
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| Wild Fancy just came from her kingdom of dreams | H |
| The breath of the opening day to enjoy | I |
| And to catch the warm kiss of its first golden beams | H |
| On her cheek caught a glimpse of the slumbering boy | I |
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| With a light noiseless step she drew near to the sleeper | C |
| And gazed till her snowy breast heaved a soft sigh | J |
| Then she bade sleep's dull god bring a sounder and deeper | C |
| And heavier trance for Love's beautiful eye | J |
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| Then back to her shadowy kingdom she flow | K |
| And called up the bright mystic forms she has there | L |
| And filling an urn from a fountain of dew | M |
| She bade them all straight to Love's couch side repair | L |
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| They came and stood round as her hand o'er his pillow | K |
| From a chalice of pearl poured its magical stream | N |
| While his red rosy lips that now sighed like a billow | K |
| At play with the breeze told how sweet was his dream | N |
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| He dreamed that he sat on a shining throne wrought | O |
| Of the purest of gold that the earth could supply | J |
| While a trio of beautiful maids who each brought | O |
| A gift for his shrine in succession past by | J |
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| First Fame with the step and the glance of a queen | P |
| Came up and before him bent down her proud knee | Q |
| And held up a garland whereon played the sheen | P |
| Of the beams which insure immortality | Q |
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| Next Wealth the stern mistress of men for whose smile | R |
| They toil like the galley slave brought in her hand | S |
| The fair gems of many an ocean isle | R |
| And the diamonds of many a far off land | S |
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| And Beauty came too with her blue laughing eye | J |
| Her fair flowing locks and her soft rosy cheek | T |
| And red lips whose sweet smile told silently | Q |
| The tale which they seemed ashamed to speak | T |
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| 'Neath the shade of a palm branch a fourth one stood by | J |
| With locks like in hue to the tresses of Night | U |
| With a pale pensive brow and a dark dreamy eye | J |
| Where the soul of sweet softness lay gleaming in light | U |
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| It was Fancy Love gazed and his eager eye shone | V |
| With a lustre of feeling deep fervent and sweet | W |
| And he thought it were better to give up his throne | V |
| For a place on his knees at the coy maiden's feet | W |
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| And from that bright hour through calm and through storm | X |
| Through the sunlight of summer and winter's dark reign | Y |
| These twain have been bound by ties tender and warm | X |
| Which ne'er through all time shall be severed again | Z |
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| And ever where Love weaves his fond witchery | L |
| Will Fancy the aid of her brightness bestow | K |
| And give the loved object whatever it be | Q |
| A purer a dearer a heavenlier glow | K |
George W. Sands
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