Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDAAA AAAAEFEF GAGAHIHJ AGAGAKLK ABABAHAH| Love though it is not chill and cold | A |
| But burning like eternal fire | B |
| Is yet not of approaches bold | A |
| Which gay dramatic tastes admire | C |
| Oh timid love more fond than free | D |
| In daring song is ill pourtrayed | A |
| Where as in war the devotee | A |
| By valour wins each captive maid | A |
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| Where hearts are prest to hearts in glee | A |
| As they could tell each other's mind | A |
| Where ruby lips are kissed as free | A |
| As flowers are by the summer wind | A |
| No gentle love that timid dream | E |
| With hopes and fears at foil and play | F |
| Works like a skiff against the stream | E |
| And thinking most finds least to say | F |
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| It lives in blushes and in sighs | G |
| In hopes for which no words are found | A |
| Thoughts dare not speak but in the eyes | G |
| The tongue is left without a sound | A |
| The pert and forward things that dare | H |
| Their talk in every maiden's ear | I |
| Feel no more than their shadows there | H |
| Mere things of form with nought of fear | J |
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| True passion that so burns to plead | A |
| Is timid as the dove's disguise | G |
| Tis for the murder aiming gleed | A |
| To dart at every thing that flies | G |
| True love it is no daring bird | A |
| But like the little timid wren | K |
| That in the new leaved thorns of spring | L |
| Shrinks farther from the sight of men | K |
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| The idol of his musing mind | A |
| The worship of his lonely hour | B |
| Love woos her in the summer wind | A |
| And tells her name to every flower | B |
| But in her sight no open word | A |
| Escapes his fondness to declare | H |
| The sighs by beauty's magic stirred | A |
| Are all that speak his passion there | H |
John Clare
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