Love's Logic Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIKLMLM NONOPQPQ| And if I ask thee for a kiss | A |
| I ask no more than this sweet breeze | B |
| With far less title to the bliss | A |
| Steals every minute at his ease | B |
| And yet how placid is thy brow | C |
| It seems to woo the bold caress | D |
| While now he takes his kiss and now | C |
| All sorts of freedoms with thy dress | D |
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| Or if I dare thy hand to touch | E |
| Hath nothing pressed its palm before | F |
| A flower I'm sure hath done as much | E |
| And ah some senseless diamond more | F |
| It strikes me love the very rings | G |
| Now sparkling on that hand of thine | H |
| Could tell some truly startling things | G |
| If they had tongues or touch like mine | H |
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| Indeed indeed I do not know | I |
| Of all that thou hast power to grant | J |
| A boon for which I could not show | I |
| Some pretty precedent extant | K |
| Suppose for instance I should clasp | L |
| Thus so and thus thy slender waist | M |
| I would not hold within my grasp | L |
| More than this loosened zone embraced | M |
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| Oh put the anger from thine eyes | N |
| Or shut them if they still must frown | O |
| Those lids despite yon garish skies | N |
| Can bring a timely darkness down | O |
| Then if in that convenient night | P |
| My lips should press thy dewy mouth | Q |
| The touch shall be so soft so light | P |
| Thou 'lt fancy me this gentle South | Q |
Henry Timrod
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