The White Lilies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKL MNMOP| As a man and woman make | A |
| a garden between them like | B |
| a bed of stars here | C |
| they linger in the summer evening | D |
| and the evening turns | E |
| cold with their terror it | F |
| could all end it is capable | G |
| of devastation All all | H |
| can be lost through scented air | I |
| the narrow columns | J |
| uselessly rising and beyond | K |
| a churning sea of poppies | L |
| - | |
| Hush beloved It doesn't matter to me | M |
| how many summers I live to return | N |
| this one summer we have entered eternity | M |
| I felt your two hands | O |
| bury me to release its splendor | P |
Louise Gluck
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