The Lost Elixir. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDE FGFGCC HIHJBB| One drop of ruddy human blood puts more life into the veins of a poem than all the delusive 'aurum potabile' that can be distilled out of the choicest library Lowell | A |
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| Ah yes that drop of human blood | B |
| We had it once may be | C |
| When our young song's impetuous flood | B |
| First poured its ecstasy | C |
| But now the shrunk poetic vein | D |
| Yields not that priceless drop again | E |
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| We toil as toiled we not of old | F |
| Our patient hands distil | G |
| The shining spheres of chemic gold | F |
| With hard won fruitless skill | G |
| But that red drop still seems to be | C |
| Beyond our utmost alchemy | C |
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| Perchance but most in later age | H |
| Time's after gift a tear | I |
| Will strike a pathos on the page | H |
| Beyond all art sincere | J |
| But that one drop of human blood | B |
| Has gone with life's first leaf and bud | B |
Henry Austin Dobson
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