Fate Knows No Tears Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB ACACAC ADAEAE FGFGFG HIHIHI JFKFKF LMLMLM LNLNLO LPLPLQ RJRJRJ ASASAT| Just as the dawn of Love was breaking | A |
| Across the weary world of grey | B |
| Just as my life once more was waking | A |
| As roses waken late in May | B |
| Fate blindly cruel and havoc making | A |
| Stepped in and carried you away | B |
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| Memories have I none in keeping | A |
| Of times I held you near my heart | C |
| Of dreams when we were near to weeping | A |
| That dawn should bid us rise and part | C |
| Never alas I saw you sleeping | A |
| With soft closed eyes and lips apart | C |
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| Breathing my name still through your dreaming | A |
| Ah had you stayed such things had been | D |
| But Fate unheeding human scheming | A |
| Serenely reckless came between | E |
| Fate with her cold eyes hard and gleaming | A |
| Unseared by all the sorrow seen | E |
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| Ah well beloved I never told you | F |
| I did not show in speech or song | G |
| How at the end I longed to fold you | F |
| Close in my arms so fierce and strong | G |
| The longing grew to have and hold you | F |
| You and you only all life long | G |
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| They who know nothing call me fickle | H |
| Keen to pursue and loth to keep | I |
| Ah could they see these tears that trickle | H |
| From eyes erstwhile too proud to weep | I |
| Could see me prone beneath the sickle | H |
| While pain and sorrow stand and reap | I |
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| Unopened scarce yet overblown lie | J |
| The hopes that rose like round me grew | F |
| The lights are low and more than lonely | K |
| This life I lead apart from you | F |
| Come back come back I want you only | K |
| And you who loved me never knew | F |
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| You loved me pleaded for compassion | L |
| On all the pain I would not share | M |
| And I in weary halting fashion | L |
| Was loth to listen long to care | M |
| But now dear God I faint with passion | L |
| For your far eyes and distant hair | M |
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| Yes I am faint with love and broken | L |
| With sleepless nights and empty days | N |
| I want your soft words fiercely spoken | L |
| Your tender looks and wayward ways | N |
| Want that strange smile that gave me token | L |
| Of many things that no man says | O |
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| Cold was I weary slow to waken | L |
| Till startled by your ardent eyes | P |
| I felt the soul within me shaken | L |
| And long forgotten senses rise | P |
| But in that moment you were taken | L |
| And thus we lost our Paradise | Q |
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| Farewell we may not now recover | R |
| That golden Then misspent passed by | J |
| We shall not meet as loved and lover | R |
| Here or hereafter you and I | J |
| My time for loving you is over | R |
| Love has no future but to die | J |
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| And thus we part with no believing | A |
| In any chance of future years | S |
| We have no idle self deceiving | A |
| No half consoling hopes and fears | S |
| We know the Gods grant no retrieving | A |
| A wasted chance Fate knows no tears | T |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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