Geraldine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Ah Geraldine lost GeraldineA
That night of love when first we metB
You have forgotten GeraldineA
I never dreamed you would forgetB
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Ah Geraldine sweet GeraldineA
More lovely than that Asian queenA
Scheherazade the beautifulC
Who in her orient palace coolD
Of India for a thousand nightsE
And one beside her monarch layF
Telling while sandal scented lightsE
And music stole the soul awayF
Love tales of old ArabiaG
Full of enchantments and empriseH
But no enchantments like your eyesH
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Ah Geraldine loved GeraldineA
More lovely than those maids I weenA
Pampinea and Lauretta whoI
In gardens old of dusk and dewI
Sat with their lovers maid and manA
In stately days ItalianA
And in quaint stories that we knowA
Through grace of good BoccaccioH
Told of fond loves some false some trueI
But Geraldine none false as youI
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Ah Geraldine lost GeraldineA
That night of love when first we metB
You have forgotten GeraldineA
I never dreamed you would forgetB
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'T was summer and the moon swam highJ
A great pale pearl within the skyJ
And down that purple night of loveK
The stars concurrent spark on sparkL
Seemed fiery moths that swarmed aboveK
And through the roses o'er the parkL
Star like the fire flies filled the darkL
A mocking bird in some deep treeM
Drowsy with dreams and melodyM
Like a magnolia bud that dimN
Opens and pours its soul in muskO
Gave to the moonlight and the duskO
Its heart's pure song its evening hymnN
Oh night of love when in the danceH
Your heart thrilled rapture into mineA
As in a state of necromanceH
A mortal hears a voice divineA
Oh night of love when from your glanceH
I drank sweet death as men drink wineA
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You wearied of the waltz at lastP
I led you out into the nightQ
Warm in my hand I held yours fastP
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Your face was flushed your eyes were brightQ
The moon hung like a shell of lightQ
Above the lake above the treesH
And borne to us with fragrancesH
Of roses that were ripe to fallR
The soul of music from the hallR
Beat in the moonlight and the breezeH
As youth's wild heart grown weary ofK
Desire and its dream of loveK
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I held your arm and for awhileS
We walked along the balmy aisleS
Of flowers that like velvet dipsH
Unto the lake which lilies tileS
Like stars and hyacinths like stripsH
Of heaven and beside a fallR
That down a ferned and mossy wallR
Fell in the lake deep woodbine woundT
A latticed summer house we foundT
A green kiosk through which the soundT
Of waters and of breezes swayedU
And honeysuckle bugles playedU
Soft serenades of perfume sweetV
Around which ran a rustic seatV
And seated in that haunted nookW
I know not how it was a wordX
A touch perhaps a sigh a lookW
Was father to the kiss I tookW
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Great things grow out of small I've heardX
And then it was I took betweenA
My hands your face loved GeraldineA
And gazed into your eyes and toldY
The story ever new though oldY
You did not look away but metB
My eyes with eyes whose lids were wetB
With tears of truth and you did leanA
Your cheek to mine sweet GeraldineA
I never dreamed you would forgetB
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The night wind and the water sighedZ
And through the leaves that stirred aboveK
The moonbeams swooned with music ofK
The dance soft things in league with loveK
I never dreamed that you had liedZ
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How all comes back now GeraldineA
The melody the glimmering sceneA
Your angel face and ev'n betweenA
Your lawny breasts the heart shaped jewelC
To which your breath gave fluctuant fuelC
A rosy star of stormy fireA2
The snowy drift of your attireA2
Lace deep and fragrant and your hairB2
Disordered in the dance held backC2
By one gemmed pin a moonbeam thereB2
Half drowned within its night like blackC2
And I who sat beside you thenA
Seemed blessed above all mortal menA
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I loved you for the way you sighedZ
The way you said I love but youI
The smile with which your lips repliedZ
Your lips that from my bosom drewI
The soul your looks like undeniedZ
Caresses that seemed naught but trueI
I loved you for the violet scentZ
That clung about you as a flowerA2
Your moods where shine and shadow blentZ
An April tide of sun and showerA2
You were my creed my testamentZ
Wherein I read of God's high powerA2
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Was it because the loving seeH
Only what they desire shall beH
There in the well belov d's soulD2
Affection and affinityH
That I beheld in you the wholeD2
Of my love's image and believedZ
You loved as I did nor perceivedZ
'T was but a mask a mockeryH
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Ah Geraldine lost GeraldineA
That night of love when first we metZ
You have forgotten GeraldineA
I never dreamed you would forgetZ

Madison Julius Cawein



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