Aphrodite Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGHIIJJ| Not unremembering we pass our exile from the starry ways | A |
| One timeless hour in time we caught from the long night of endless days | A |
| With solemn gaiety the stars danced far withdrawn on elfin heights | B |
| The lilac breathed amid the shade of green and blue and citron lights | B |
| But yet the close enfolding night seemed on the phantom verge of things | C |
| For our adoring hearts had turned within from all their wanderings | C |
| For beauty called to beauty and there thronged at the enchanter's will | D |
| The vanished hours of love that burn within the Ever living still | D |
| And sweet eternal faces put the shadows of the earth to rout | E |
| And faint and fragile as a moth your white hand fluttered and went out | E |
| Oh who am I who tower beside this goddess of the twilight air | F |
| The burning doves fly from my heart and melt within her bosom there | F |
| I know the sacrifice of old they offered to the mighty queen | G |
| And this adoring love has brought us back the beauty that has been | H |
| As to her worshippers she came descending from her glowing skies | I |
| So Aphrodite I have seen with shining eyes look through your eyes | I |
| One gleam of the ancestral face which lighted up the dawn for me | J |
| One fiery visitation of the love the gods desire in thee | J |
George William Russell
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