The Temple Dancing Girl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCCC DCDC EFEF GCGC HIHI CCCC CJCJ GEGE AABB| You will be mine those lightly dancing feet | A |
| Falling as softly on the careless street | A |
| As the wind loosened petals of a flower | B |
| Will bring you here at the Appointed Hour | B |
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| And all the Temple's little links and laws | C |
| Will not for long protect your loveliness | C |
| I have a stronger force to aid my cause | C |
| Nature's great Law to love and to possess | C |
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| Throughout those sleepless watches when I lay | D |
| Wakeful desiring what I might not see | C |
| I knew it helped those hours from dusk to day | D |
| In this one thing Fate would be kind to me | C |
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| You will consent through all my veins like wine | E |
| This prescience flows your lips meet mine above | F |
| Your clear soft eyes look upward into mine | E |
| Dim in a silent ecstasy of love | F |
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| The clustered softness of your waving hair | G |
| That curious paleness which enchants me so | C |
| And all your delicate strength and youthful air | G |
| Destiny will compel you to bestow | C |
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| Refuse withdraw and hesitate awhile | H |
| Your young reluctance does but fan the flame | I |
| My partner Love waits with a tender smile | H |
| Who play against him play a losing game | I |
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| I strong in nothing else have strength in this | C |
| The subtlest most resistless force we know | C |
| Is aiding me and you must stoop and kiss | C |
| The genius of the race will have it so | C |
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| Yet make it not too long nor too intense | C |
| My thirst lest I should break beneath the strain | J |
| And the worn nerves and over wearied sense | C |
| Enjoy not what they spent themselves to gain | J |
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| Lest in the hour when you consent to share | G |
| That human passion Beauty makes divine | E |
| I over worn should find you over fair | G |
| Lest I should die before I make you mine | E |
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| You will consent those slim reluctant feet | A |
| Falling as lightly on the careless street | A |
| As the white petals of a wind worn flower | B |
| Will bring you here at the Appointed Hour | B |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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