Lethe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACDCD E BBBBBBDBD E BBBBBBFBD G HIJIHBKBD| There is a scent of roses and spilt wine | A |
| Between the moonlight and the laurel coppice | B |
| The marble idol glimmers on its shrine | A |
| White as a star among a heaven of poppies | B |
| Here all my life lies like a spilth of wine | A |
| There is a mouth of music like a lute | C |
| A nightingale that sigheth to one flower | D |
| Between the falling flower and the fruit | C |
| Where love hath died the music of an hour | D |
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| II | E |
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| To sit alone with memory and a rose | B |
| To dwell with shadows of whilom romances | B |
| To make one hour of a year of woes | B |
| And walk on starlight in ethereal trances | B |
| With love's lost face fair as a moon white rose | B |
| To shape from music and the scent of buds | B |
| Love's spirit and its presence of sweet fire | D |
| Between the heart's wild burning and the blood's | B |
| Is part of life and of the soul's desire | D |
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| III | E |
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| There is a song to silence and the stars | B |
| Between the forest and the temple's arches | B |
| And down the stream of night like nenuphars | B |
| The tossing fires of the revellers' torches | B |
| Here all my life waits lonely as the stars | B |
| Shall not one hour of all those hours suffice | B |
| For resignation God hath given as dower | F |
| Between the summons and the sacrifice | B |
| One hour of love th' eternity of an hour | D |
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| IV | G |
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| The shrine is shattered and the bird is gone | H |
| Dark is the house of music and of bridal | I |
| The stars are stricken and the storm comes on | J |
| Lost in a wreck of roses lies the idol | I |
| Sad as the memory of a joy that's gone | H |
| To dream of perished gladness and a kiss | B |
| Waking the last chord of love's broken lyre | K |
| Between remembering and forgetting this | B |
| Is part of life and of the soul's desire | D |
Madison Julius Cawein
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