Disappointment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGHG IJIJ KLKL CMBM KNKN OPOP EQEQ RSRS TUTU RVRV WEWE XYXY ZA2ZA2 TB2TB2| Oh come Beloved before my beauty fades | A |
| Pity the sorrow of my loneliness | B |
| I am a Rosebush that the Cypress shades | A |
| No sunbeams find or lighten my distress | C |
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| Daily I watch the waning of my bloom | D |
| Ah piteous fading of a thing so fair | E |
| While Fate remorseless weaving at her loom | D |
| Twines furtive silver in my twisted hair | E |
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| This noon I watched a tremulous fading rose | F |
| Rise on the wind to court a butterfly | G |
| One speck of pollen ere my petals close | H |
| Bring me one touch of love before I die | G |
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| But the gay butterfly who had the power | I |
| To grant refused flew far across the dell | J |
| And as he fertilised a younger flower | I |
| The petals of the rose defrauded fell | J |
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| Such was my fate thou hast not come to me | K |
| Thine eyes are absent and thy voice is mute | L |
| Though I am slim as this Papaya tree | K |
| With breasts out pointing even as its fruit | L |
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| Beauty was mine it brought me no caress | C |
| My lips were red yet there were none to taste | M |
| I saw my youth consume in loneliness | B |
| And all the fervour of my heart run waste | M |
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| While I still hoped that Thou would'st come to me | K |
| I and the garden waited for their Lord | N |
| Here He will rest beneath this Champa tree | K |
| Hence all ye spike set grasses from the sward | N |
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| In this cool rillet I shall bathe His feet | O |
| Come rounded pebbles from a smoother shore | P |
| This is the honey that His lips will eat | O |
| Hasten O bees enhance the amber store | P |
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| Ripen ye Custard Apples round and fair | E |
| Practise your songs O Bulbuls on the bough | Q |
| Surely some sweeter sweetness haunts the air | E |
| Maybe His feet draw near us even now | Q |
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| Disperse ye fireflies clustered on the palm | R |
| Love heeds no lamp he welcomes moonless skies | S |
| Soon shall ye find O stars serene and calm | R |
| Your sparkling rivals in my lover's eyes | S |
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| Closely I wove my leafy Jasmin bowers | T |
| Hoping to hide my pleasure and my shame | U |
| Where the Lantana's indecisive flowers | T |
| Vary from palest rose to orange flame | U |
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| Ay there were lovely hours 'neath fern and palm | R |
| Almost my aching longing I forgot | V |
| White nights of silence noons of golden calm | R |
| All past all wasted since Thou camest not | V |
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| Night after night the Champa trees distilled | W |
| Their cruel sweetness on the careless air | E |
| Noon after noon I watched the Bulbuls build | W |
| And saw with hungry eyes the Sun birds pair | E |
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| None came and none will come no use to wait | X |
| Youth's fragrance dies its tender light dies down | Y |
| I will arise before it grows too late | X |
| And seek the noisy brilliance of the town | Y |
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| These many waiting years I longed for gold | Z |
| Now must I needs console me with alloy | A2 |
| Before this beauty fades this pulse grows cold | Z |
| I may not love I will at least enjoy | A2 |
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| Farewell my Solitude of scented flowers | T |
| Across whose glades the emerald parrots gleam | B2 |
| Haunt of false hope and home of wasted hours | T |
| I am awake at last Guard thou the dream | B2 |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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