Echoes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FGFGHIHI JKJKLILI ABABFGFG| There is a far unfading city | A |
| Where bright immortal people are | B |
| Remote from hollow shame and pity | A |
| Their portals frame no guiding star | B |
| But blightless pleasure's moteless rays | C |
| That follow their footsteps as they dance | D |
| Long lutanied measures through a maze | C |
| Of flower like song and dalliance | E |
| - | |
| There always glows the vernal sun | F |
| There happy birds for ever sing | G |
| There faint perfumed breezes run | F |
| Through branches of eternal spring | G |
| There faces browned and fruit and milk | H |
| And blue winged words and rose bloomed kisses | I |
| In galleys gowned with gold and silk | H |
| Shake on a lake of dainty blisses | I |
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| Coyness is not nor bear they thought | J |
| Save of a shining gracious flow | K |
| All natural joys are temperate sought | J |
| For calm desire there they know | K |
| A fire promiscuous languorous kind | L |
| They scorn all fiercer lusts and quarrels | I |
| Nor blow about on anger's wind | L |
| Nor burn with love nor rust with morals | I |
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| Folk in the far unfading city | A |
| Burning with lusts my senses are | B |
| I am torn with love and shame and pity | A |
| Be to my heart a guiding star | B |
| Wise youths and maidens in the sun | F |
| With eyes that charm and lips that sing | G |
| And gentle arms that rippling run | F |
| Shed on my heart your endless spring | G |
John Collings Squire, Sir
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