Una Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA BCB CDC DED EFE FGF GHG HIH IJI JKJ KLK MKIn the whole wide world there was but one | A |
Others for others but she was mine | B |
The one fair woman beneath the sun | A |
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From her gold flax curls' most marvellous shine | B |
Down to the lithe and delicate feet | C |
There was not a curve nor a waving line | B |
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But moved in a harmony firm and sweet | C |
With all of passion my life could know | D |
By knowledge perfect and faith complete | C |
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I was bound to her as the planets go | D |
Adoring around their central star | E |
Free but united for weal or woe | D |
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She was so near and Heaven so far | E |
She grew my heaven and law and fate | F |
Rounding my life with a mystic bar | E |
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No thought beyond could violate | F |
Our love to fulness in silence nursed | G |
Grew calm as morning when through the gate | F |
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Of the glimmering east the sun has burst | G |
With his hot life filling the waiting air | H |
She kissed me once that last and first | G |
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Of her maiden kisses was placid as prayer | H |
Against all comers I sat with lance | I |
In rest and drunk with my joy I sware | H |
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Defiance and scorn to the world's worst chance | I |
In vain for soon unhorsed I lay | J |
At the feet of the strong god Circumstance | I |
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And never again shall break the day | J |
And never again shall fall the night | K |
That shall light me or shield me on my way | J |
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To the presence of my sad soul's delight | K |
Her dead love comes like a passionate ghost | L |
To mourn the Body it held so light | K |
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And Fate like a hound with a purpose lost | M |
Goes round bewildered with shame and fright | K |
John Milton Hay
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