A Guinevere Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHG IJJI KLLK MNNM KOOK PQRP SKKS NTTN UKKU VWWV UPPU| Sullen gold down all the sky | A |
| In the roses sultry musk | B |
| Nightingales hid in the dusk | B |
| Yonder sob and sigh | A |
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| You are here and I could weep | C |
| Weep for joy and suffering | D |
| Where is he He'd have me sing | D |
| There he sits asleep | C |
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| Think not of him he is dead | E |
| For the moment to us twain | F |
| He were dead but for this pain | F |
| Drumming in my head | E |
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| Am I happy Ask the fire | G |
| When it bursts its bounds and thrills | H |
| Some mad hours as it wills | H |
| If those hours tire | G |
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| He had gold As for the rest | I |
| Well you know how they were set | J |
| Saying that I must forget | J |
| And 'twas for the best | I |
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| I forget but let it go | K |
| Kiss me as you did of old | L |
| There your kisses are not cold | L |
| Can you love me so | K |
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| Knowing what I am to him | M |
| Sitting in his gouty chair | N |
| On the breezy terrace where | N |
| Amber fire flies swim | M |
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| Yes Your cheek a tear drop wets | K |
| But your kisses on my lip | O |
| Fall as warm as bees that sip | O |
| Sweets from violets | K |
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| See the moon has risen white | P |
| As this bursten lily here | Q |
| Rocking on the dusky mere | R |
| Like a silent light | P |
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| Let us walk We soon must part | S |
| All too soon but he may miss | K |
| Give me but another kiss | K |
| It will heat my heart | S |
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| And the bitter winter there | N |
| So we part my Launcelot | T |
| My true knight and am I not | T |
| Your true Guinevere | N |
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| Oft they parted thus they tell | U |
| In that mystical romance | K |
| Were they placed think you perchance | K |
| For such love in hell | U |
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| No it can not can not be | V |
| Love is God and God is love | W |
| And they live and love above | W |
| Guinevere and he | V |
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| I must go now See there fell | U |
| Molten into purple light | P |
| One wild star Kiss me good night | P |
| And once more farewell | U |
Madison Julius Cawein
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