Golden Eyes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD ABABABAB AEAEFGFG HIHIJKJK LMNMOPOP QHQHRSRS AEAETUTV KWKXYZYZ ABABABAB| Oh Amber Eyes oh Golden Eyes | A |
| Oh Eyes so softly gay | B |
| Wherein swift fancies fall and rise | A |
| Grow dark and fade away | B |
| Eyes like a little limpid pool | C |
| That holds a sunset sky | D |
| While on its surface calm and cool | C |
| Blue water lilies lie | D |
| - | |
| Oh Tender Eyes oh Wistful Eyes | A |
| You smiled on me one day | B |
| And all my life in glad surprise | A |
| Leapt up and pleaded Stay | B |
| Alas oh cruel starlike eyes | A |
| So grave and yet so gay | B |
| You went to lighten other skies | A |
| Smiled once and passed away | B |
| - | |
| Oh you whom I name Golden Eyes | A |
| Perhaps I used to know | E |
| Your beauty under other skies | A |
| In lives lived long ago | E |
| Perhaps I rowed with galley slaves | F |
| Whose labour never ceased | G |
| To bring across Phoenician waves | F |
| Your treasure from the East | G |
| - | |
| Maybe you were an Emperor then | H |
| And I a favourite slave | I |
| Some youth whom from the lions' den | H |
| You vainly tried to save | I |
| Maybe I reigned a mighty King | J |
| The early nations knew | K |
| And you were some slight captive thing | J |
| Some maiden whom I slew | K |
| - | |
| Perhaps adrift on desert shores | L |
| Beside some shipwrecked prow | M |
| I gladly gave my life for yours | N |
| Would I might give it now | M |
| Or on some sacrificial stone | O |
| Strange Gods we satisfied | P |
| Perhaps you stooped and left a throne | O |
| To kiss me ere I died | P |
| - | |
| Perhaps still further back than this | Q |
| In times ere men were men | H |
| You granted me a moment's bliss | Q |
| In some dark desert den | H |
| When with your amber eyes alight | R |
| With iridescent flame | S |
| And fierce desire for love's delight | R |
| Towards my lair you came | S |
| - | |
| Ah laughing ever brilliant eyes | A |
| These things men may not know | E |
| But something in your radiance lies | A |
| That centuries ago | E |
| Lit up my life in one wild blaze | T |
| Of infinite desire | U |
| To revel in your golden rays | T |
| Or in your light expire | V |
| - | |
| If this oh Strange Ringed Eyes be true | K |
| That through all changing lives | W |
| This longing love I have for you | K |
| Eternally survives | X |
| May I not sometimes dare to dream | Y |
| In some far time to be | Z |
| Your softly golden eyes may gleam | Y |
| Responsively on me | Z |
| - | |
| Ah gentle subtly changing eyes | A |
| You smiled on me one day | B |
| And all my life in glad surprise | A |
| Leaped up imploring Stay | B |
| Alas alas oh Golden Eyes | A |
| So cruel and so gay | B |
| You went to shine in other skies | A |
| Smiled once and passed away | B |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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