Lalila, To The Ferengi Lover Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIHI JKJK LMLM NCNC FOFO DLPL LQLR| Why above others was I so blessed | A |
| And honoured to be chosen one | B |
| To hold you sleeping against my breast | A |
| As now I may hold your only son | B |
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| Twelve months ago that wonderful night | C |
| You gave your life to me in a kiss | D |
| Have I done well for that past delight | C |
| In return to have given you this | D |
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| Look down at his face your face beloved | E |
| His eyes are azure as yours are blue | F |
| In every line of his form is proved | G |
| How well I loved you and only you | F |
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| I felt the secret hope at my heart | H |
| Turned suddenly to the living joy | I |
| And knew that your life and mine had part | H |
| As golden grains in a brass alloy | I |
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| And learning thus that your child was mine | J |
| Thrilled by the sense of its stirring life | K |
| I held myself as a sacred shrine | J |
| Afar from pleasure and pain and strife | K |
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| That all unworthy I might not be | L |
| Of that you had deigned to cause to dwell | M |
| Hidden away in the heart of me | L |
| As white pearls hide in a dusky shell | M |
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| Do you remember when first you laid | N |
| Your lips on mine that enchanted night | C |
| My eyes were timid my lips afraid | N |
| You seemed so slender and strangely white | C |
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| I always tremble the moments flew | F |
| Swiftly to dawn that took you away | O |
| But this is a small and lovely you | F |
| Content to rest in my arms all day | O |
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| Oh since you have sought me Lord for this | D |
| And given your only child to me | L |
| My life devoted to yours and his | P |
| Whilst I am living will always be | L |
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| And after death through the long To Be | L |
| Which I think must surely keep love's laws | Q |
| I should you chance to have need of me | L |
| Am ever and always only yours | R |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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