Early Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHI AJGEKIH DLDMNOPQR SGJLTUVW XYGZBA2 B2BC2D2 BE2F2 QG2DGASGH2 DI2BBBJ2K2| Who says I wrong thee my half opened rose | A |
| Little he knows of thee or me or love | B |
| I am so tender of thy fragile youth | C |
| Yea in my hours of wildest ecstasy | D |
| Keeping close bitted each careering sense | E |
| Only I give mine eyes unmeasured law | F |
| To feed them where they will and their delight | G |
| Was curbed at first until thy tender shame | H |
| Died in the bearing of thy first born joy | I |
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| I am not cruel my half opened rose | A |
| Though in the sunshine of my own desire | J |
| I have uncurled thy petals to the light | G |
| And fed the tendrils of thy dawning sense | E |
| With delicate caresses till they leave | K |
| Thee tremulous with the newness of thy joy | I |
| Sharing thy lover's fire with innocent flame | H |
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| Others will wrong thee that I well foresee | D |
| Being a man knowing my fellow men | L |
| And they who knowing would blame my love of thee | D |
| Contentedly will see thy beauty given | M |
| When the world judges thou art ripe to wed | N |
| To the rough rites of marriage to the pain | O |
| And grievous weariness of child getting | P |
| This shall be right and licit in their eyes | Q |
| But it would break my heart were I alive | R |
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| Yea this will be many will doubtless share | S |
| The rose whose bud has been my one delight | G |
| And I shall not be there to shield my flower | J |
| Yet I have taught thee of the ways of men | L |
| Much I have learnt in cities and in courts | T |
| Winnowed to suit thy tender brain is thine | U |
| Thus Life shall find thee not all unprepared | V |
| To face its callous subtle cruelties | W |
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| Still it will profit little I discern | X |
| Thou art of those whose love will prove their curse | Y |
| Thou sayest thou lovest me to thy delight | G |
| Nay little one it is not love as yet | Z |
| Dear as thou art and lovely thou canst not love | B |
| Thy later loves shall show the truth of this | A2 |
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| Ay by some subtle signs I know full well | B2 |
| That thou art capable of that great love | B |
| Whose glory has the light of unknown heavens | C2 |
| And makes hot Hell for those who harbour it | D2 |
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| Naught I can say could save thee from thyself | B |
| Ah were I half my age Yet even that | E2 |
| Had been too old for thy sweet thirteenth year | F2 |
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| Still thou art happy now and glad thine eyes | Q |
| When as the lilac evening gains the sky | G2 |
| I lay thee 'twixt thine own soft hair and me | D |
| Kissing thy senses into soft delight | G |
| Ruffling the petals of my half closed rose | A |
| With tender touches and perpetual care | S |
| That no wild moment of mine own delight | G |
| Deep in the flower's heart should set the fruit | H2 |
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| Ah in the days to come it well may be | D |
| When thou shalt see thy beauty stained and torn | I2 |
| By the harsh sequel of some future love | B |
| Thy thoughts shall stray to thy first lover's grave | B |
| And thou shalt murmur Ay but that was love | B |
| They were most wrong who said he did me wrong | J2 |
| Only I was too young to understand | K2 |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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