Nepenthe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACACDBDD EBFGGFHHIGI JKLLKKMNMOPPPKMKKM QRQSSTQTKKYes it was like you to forget | A |
And cancel in the welcome of your smile | B |
My deep arrears of debt | A |
And with the putting forth of both your hands | C |
To sweep away the bars my folly set | A |
Between us bitter thoughts and harsh demands | C |
And reckless deeds that seemed untrue | D |
To love when all the while | B |
My heart was aching through and through | D |
For you sweet heart and only you | D |
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Yet as I turned to come to you again | E |
I thought there must be many a mile | B |
Of sorrowful reproach to cross | F |
And many an hour of mutual pain | G |
To bear until I could make plain | G |
That all my pride was but the fear of loss | F |
And all my doubt the shadow of despair | H |
To win a heart so innocent and fair | H |
And even that which looked most ill | I |
Was but the fever fret and effort vain | G |
To dull the thirst which you alone could still | I |
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But as I turned the desert miles were crossed | J |
And when I came the weary hours were sped | K |
For there you stood beside the open door | L |
Glad gracious smiling as before | L |
And with bright eyes and tender hands outspread | K |
Restored me to the Eden I had lost | K |
Never a word of cold reproof | M |
No sharp reproach no glances that accuse | N |
The culprit whom they hold aloof | M |
Ah 't is not thus that other women use | O |
The power they have Won | P |
For there is none like you belov d none | P |
Secure enough to do what you have done | P |
Where did you learn this heavenly art | K |
You sweetest and most wise of all that live | M |
With silent welcome to impart | K |
Assurance of the royal heart | K |
That never questions where it would forgive | M |
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None but a queen could pardon me like this | Q |
My sovereign lady let me lay | R |
Within each rosy palm a loyal kiss | Q |
Of penitence then close the fingers up | S |
Thus thus Now give the cup | S |
Of full nepenthe in your crimson mouth | T |
And come the garden blooms with bliss | Q |
The wind is in the south | T |
The rose of love with dew is wet | K |
Dear it was like you to forget | K |
Henry Van Dyke
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