Song Of Jasoda Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ACAC ADAD AEAE FGFG HIHI AGAG JKJK LGLG MAMA MBMB MGMG NONP| Had I been young I could have claimed to fold thee | A |
| For many days against my eager breast | B |
| But as things are how can I hope to hold thee | A |
| Once thou hast wakened from this fleeting rest | B |
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| Clear shone the moonlight so that thou couldst find me | A |
| Yet not so clear that thou couldst see my face | C |
| Where in the shadow of the palms behind me | A |
| I waited for thy steps for thy embrace | C |
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| What reck I now my morning life was lonely | A |
| For widowed feet the ways are always rough | D |
| Though thou hast come to me at sunset only | A |
| Still thou hast come my Lord it is enough | D |
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| Ah mine no more the glow of dawning beauty | A |
| The fragrance and the dainty gloss of youth | E |
| Worn by long years of solitude and duty | A |
| I have no bloom to offer thee in truth | E |
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| Yet since these eyes of mine have never wandered | F |
| Still may they gleam with long forgotten light | G |
| Since in no wanton way my youth was squandered | F |
| Some sense of youth still clings to me to night | G |
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| Thy lips are fresh as dew on budding roses | H |
| The gold of dawn still lingers in thy hair | I |
| While the abandonment of sleep discloses | H |
| How every attitude of youth is fair | I |
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| Thou art so pale I hardly dare caress thee | A |
| Too brown my fingers show against the white | G |
| Ahi the glory that I should possess thee | A |
| Ahi the grief but for a single night | G |
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| The tulip tree has pallid golden flowers | J |
| That grow more rosy as their petals fade | K |
| Such is the splendour of my evening hours | J |
| Whose time of youth was wasted in the shade | K |
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| I shall not wait to see to morrow's morning | L |
| Too bright the golden dawn for me too bright | G |
| How could I bear thine eyes' unconscious scorning | L |
| Of what so pleased thee in the dimmer light | G |
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| It may be wine had brought some brief illusion | M |
| Filling thy brain with rainbow fantasy | A |
| Or youth with moonlight making sweet collusion | M |
| Threw an alluring glamour over me | A |
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| Therefore I leave thee softly to awaken | M |
| When the first sun rays warm thy blue veined breast | B |
| Smiling and all unknowing I have taken | M |
| The poppied drink that brings me endless rest | B |
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| Thus would I have thee rise thy fancy laden | M |
| With the vague sweetness of the bygone night | G |
| Thinking of me as some consenting maiden | M |
| Whose beauty blossomed first for thy delight | G |
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| While I if any kindly visions hover | N |
| Around the silence of my last repose | O |
| Shall dream of thee my pale and radiant lover | N |
| Who made my life so lovely at its close | P |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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