Nay, Not To-night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CCCC DEDF GHGH IIII ICIC GCGC| Nay not to night the slow sad rain is falling | A |
| Sorrowful tears beneath a grieving sky | B |
| Far off a famished jackal faintly calling | A |
| Renders the dusk more lonely with its cry | B |
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| The mighty river rushes sobbing seawards | C |
| The shadows shelter faint mysterious fears | C |
| I turn mine eyes for consolation theewards | C |
| And find thy lashes tremulous with tears | C |
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| If some new soul asearch for incarnation | D |
| Should through our kisses enter Life again | E |
| It would inherit all our desolation | D |
| All the soft sorrow of the slanting rain | F |
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| When thou desirest Love's supreme surrender | G |
| Come while the morning revels in the light | H |
| Bulbuls around us passionately tender | G |
| Singing among the roses red and white | H |
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| Thus if it be my sweet and sacred duty | I |
| Subservient to the Gods' divine decree | I |
| To give the world again thy vivid beauty | I |
| I should transmit it with my joy in thee | I |
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| I could not if I would Beloved deceive thee | I |
| Wouldst thou not feel at once a feigned caress | C |
| Yet do not rise I would not have thee leave me | I |
| My soul needs thine to share its loneliness | C |
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| Let the dim starlight when the low clouds sunder | G |
| Silver the perfect outline of thy face | C |
| Such faces had the saints I only wonder | G |
| That thine has sought my heart for resting place | C |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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