Regardant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA BCB DEC EFE FGF GHG IJI JKJ KLK LMN MLM| As I lay at your feet that afternoon | A |
| Little we spoke you sat and mused | B |
| Humming a sweet old fashioned tune | A |
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| And I worshipped you with a sense confused | B |
| Of the good time gone and the bad on the way | C |
| While my hungry eyes your face perused | B |
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| To catch and brand on my soul for aye | D |
| The subtle smile which had grown my doom | E |
| Drinking sweet poison hushed I lay | C |
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| Till the sunset shimmered athwart the room | E |
| I rose to go You stood so fair | F |
| And dim in the dead day's tender gloom | E |
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| All at once or ever I was aware | F |
| Flashed from you on me a warm strong wave | G |
| Of passion and power in the silence there | F |
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| I fell on my knees like a lover or slave | G |
| With my wild hands clasping your slender waist | H |
| And my lips with a sudden frenzy brave | G |
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| A madman's kiss on your girdle pressed | I |
| And I felt your calm heart's quickening beat | J |
| And your soft hands on me one instant rest | I |
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| And if God had loved me how endlessly sweet | J |
| Had he let my heart in its rapture burst | K |
| And throb its last at your firm small feet | J |
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| And when I was forth I shuddered at first | K |
| At my imminent bliss As a soul in pain | L |
| Treading his desolate path accursed | K |
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| Looks back and dreams through his tears' dim rain | L |
| That by Heaven's wide gate the angels smile | M |
| Relenting and beckon him back again | N |
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| And goes on thrice damned by that devil's wile | M |
| So sometimes burns in my weary brain | L |
| The thought that you loved me all the while | M |
John Hay
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