To Isabel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACDD EFEFEFBC GHGHIHJJ KLKLKKFF MNMNMNAA OPOPOPFF AQAQABRR SFSFSFTT| Come near me with thy lips and breathe o'er mine | A |
| Their breath for I consume with love's desire | B |
| Thine ivory arms about me clasp and twine | A |
| And beam upon mine eye thine eye's soft fire | B |
| Clasp me yet closer till my heart feels thine | A |
| Thrill as the chords of Memnon's mystic lyre | C |
| Thrilled at the sun's uprising thou who art | D |
| The lone the worshipped idol of my heart | D |
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| There balmier than the south wind when it brings | E |
| The scent of aromatic shrub and tree | F |
| And tropic flower on ifs glowing wings | E |
| Thine odorous breath is wafted over me | F |
| How to thy dewy lips mine own lip clings | E |
| And my whole being is absorbed in thee | F |
| And in my breast thine eyes have lit a fire | B |
| That never never never shall expire | C |
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| Eternal is it not eternal this | G |
| Our passionate love what pow'r shall part us twain | H |
| Not even Death Life could bestow no bliss | G |
| Like death with thee and I would rend its chain | H |
| If thou shouldst perish for my heaven is | I |
| To gaze upon thee I could bear all pain | H |
| Unsighing so not parted from thy side | J |
| My beautiful my spirit's chosen bride | J |
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| They try to woo me from thy fond embrace | K |
| To lure me from the light of those dear eyes | L |
| They tell me that in fortune's arduous chase | K |
| I have such fleetness as would win the prize | L |
| But all the pomps of circumstance and place | K |
| A glance a word a smile of thine outvies | K |
| Leave Fortune to her parasites mine be | F |
| The blessed lot to dwell with love and thee | F |
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| To lead thee on through life and to enlarge | M |
| Thy soul with added knowledge day by day | N |
| To guard thee as an angel guards his charge | M |
| From every ill that lurks along the way | N |
| To smooth that rugged way and strew its marge | M |
| With the bright flowrs that never can decay | N |
| This were a lot too glorious too divine | A |
| And yet Hope whispers that it shall be mine | A |
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| Now listen love this plan shall rule my life | O |
| And thine In some remote and sunny dell | P |
| Far from the crowded city's silly strife | O |
| My hands shall rear the home where we will dwell | P |
| Shall till the soil with fertile fruitage rife | O |
| And teach the golden ear to shoot and swell | P |
| And my sole wished for recompense shall be | F |
| My ever growing deep'ning love for thee | F |
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| Thy task shall be to train the trailing vine | A |
| To watch and cherish in its growth the flow'r | Q |
| Whose breath and cheek are sweet and fair as thine | A |
| To bless and brighten the domestic bow'r | Q |
| Where we will build to Love a hallowed shrine | A |
| And bow us in his worship every hour | B |
| Till chastened by thy smile my heart has grown | R |
| As pure and soft and sinless as thine own | R |
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| Oh hasten love to realize the dream | S |
| Come from the world the crowd is not for thee | F |
| Forsake it then ere the contagious steam | S |
| Of its foul breath has soiled thy purity | F |
| Come for my heart would burst could I but deem | S |
| That such as they are thou couldst ever be | F |
| Come for my soul adores thee with a love | T |
| As burning as the seraphs feel above | T |
George W. Sands
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