The Grey Eros Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD CECE FGFG HFHF FIFI CJCJ KFKF| We are desert leagues apart | A |
| Time is misty ages now | B |
| Since the warmth of heart to heart | A |
| Chased the shadows from my brow | B |
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| Oh I am so old meseems | C |
| I am next of kin to Time | D |
| The historian of her dreams | C |
| From the long forgotten prime | D |
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| You have come a path of flowers | C |
| What a way was mine to roam | E |
| Many a fallen empire's towers | C |
| Many a ruined heart my home | E |
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| No there is no comfort none | F |
| All the dewy tender breath | G |
| Idly falls when life is done | F |
| On the starless brow of death | G |
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| Though the dream of love may tire | H |
| In the ages long agone | F |
| There were ruby hearts of fire | H |
| Ah the daughters of the dawn | F |
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| Though I am so feeble now | F |
| I remember when our pride | I |
| Could not to the Mighty bow | F |
| We would sweep His stars aside | I |
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| Mix thy youth with thoughts like those | C |
| It were but to wither thee | J |
| But to graft the youthful rose | C |
| On the old and flowerless tree | J |
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| Age is no more near than youth | K |
| To the sceptre and the crown | F |
| Vain the wisdom vain the truth | K |
| Do not lay thy rapture down | F |
George William Russell
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