The Open Gates Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEFEGG HIJIKK LCLCMN OPOPQQ ORORSS| My heart was sad when first we met | A |
| 'Yet with a smile | B |
| A welcome smile I ne'er forget | A |
| Thou didst beguile | B |
| My sighs and sorrows and a sweet delight | C |
| Shed a soft radiance where erst was night | C |
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| I dreamed not we should meet again | D |
| But fate was kind | E |
| Once more my heart o'er fraught with pain | F |
| To joy inclined | E |
| It seemed thy soul had power to penetrate | G |
| My inmost self changing at will my state | G |
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| Then sprang the thought Be thou my Queen | H |
| I will be slave | I |
| Make here thy throne and reign supreme | J |
| 'Tis all I crave | I |
| Let me within thy soothing influence dwell | K |
| Content to know with thee all must be well | K |
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| I knew not that another claimed | L |
| By prior right | C |
| Those charms that had my breast inflamed | L |
| With fancies bright | C |
| Ah then I recognized my loneliness | M |
| My dreams dispelled still I admired no less | N |
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| Time wearily dragged on its way | O |
| We met once more | P |
| And thou wert free Oh happy day | O |
| As sight of shore | P |
| Cheers the worn mariner so sight of thee | Q |
| Made my heart beat with sweet expectancy | Q |
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| Is it too much to hope someday | O |
| This heart of mine | R |
| That beats alone for thee yet may | O |
| Thy love enshrine | R |
| All things are said to come to him who waits | S |
| I'm waiting darling Love opes wide the gates | S |
John Hartley
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