Evening Beauty: Blackfriars Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGEGGE HHIJKI LLGMMG| Nought is but beauty weareth near and far | A |
| Under the pale blue sky and lonely star | A |
| This is that quick hour when the city turns | B |
| Her troubled harsh distortion and blind care | C |
| Into brief loveliness seen everywhere | C |
| While in the fuming west the low sun smouldering burns | B |
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| Not brick nor marble the rich beauty owns | D |
| Not this is held in starward pointing stones | D |
| Sun wind and smoke the threefold magic stir | E |
| Kissing each favourless poor ruin with kiss | F |
| Like that when lovers lovers lure to bliss | F |
| And earth than towered heaven awhile is heavenlier | E |
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| Tall shafts that show the sky how far away | G |
| The thousand window'd house gilded with day | G |
| That fades to night the arches low the streamer | E |
| Everywhere of the ruddy'd smoke Is aught | G |
| Of loveliness so rich e'er sold and bought | G |
| Look visions fairer in the eyes of any dreamer | E |
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| Needs must so rare a beauty be so brief | H |
| Night comes of this delight the subtle thief | H |
| Thou canst not Night this same rich thievery keep | I |
| Seize it and look 'tis gone ere seized is gone | J |
| Only in our warm bosoms lingering on | K |
| A nest of precious dreams when our lids droop in sleep | I |
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| So in her darkening loveliness is she seen | L |
| Like an autumnal passion haunted queen | L |
| Who hears A captain king is at the gate | G |
| 'Tis Antony Antony Then hastens she | M |
| Beauty to beauty adding yet till see | M |
| A queen within the queen perilous with love and fate | G |
John Frederick Freeman
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