Stay! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C D E FAE CAA G| Stay as I see thee now abide for ever in my memory | A |
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| From thy lips the last inspired note has broken No light no flash is in thy eyes they are dim weighed down by the load of happiness of the blissful sense of the beauty it has been thy glad lot to express the beauty groping for which thou hast stretched out thy yearning hands thy triumphant exhausted hands | B |
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| What is the radiance purer and higher than the sun's radiance all about thy limbs the least fold of thy raiment | C |
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| What god's caressing breath has set thy scattered tresses floating | D |
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| His kiss burns on thy brow white now as marble | E |
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| This is it the mystery revealed the mystery of poesy of life of love | F |
| This this is immortality Other immortality there is none nor need be | A |
| For this instant thou art immortal | E |
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| It passes and once more thou art a grain of dust a woman a child | C |
| But why need'st thou care For this instant thou art above thou art outside all that is passing temporary | A |
| This thy instant will never end Stay and let me share in thy immortality shed into my soul the light of thy eternity | A |
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| November | G |
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
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