Perle Des Jardins Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA DEED FGGF HIIJ KLLK MNNM OPPO NQQN RSSR TUUT VWWV ILLI XYYX NZZN A2XXA2 B2A2A2C2 NA2A2N D2NND2 E2A2A2E2| What am I and what is he | A |
| Who can cull and tear a heart | B |
| As one might a rose for sport | C |
| In its royalty | A |
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| What am I that he has made | D |
| All this love a bitter foam | E |
| Blown about a life of loam | E |
| That must break and fade | D |
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| He who of my heart could make | F |
| Hollow crystal where his face | G |
| Like a passion had its place | G |
| Holy and then break | F |
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| Shatter with insensate jeers | H |
| But these weary eyes are dry | I |
| Tearless clear and if I die | I |
| They shall know no tears | J |
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| Yet my heart weeps let it weep | K |
| Let it weep in sullen pain | L |
| And this anguish in my brain | L |
| Cry itself to sleep | K |
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| Ah the afternoon is warm | M |
| And yon fields are glad and fair | N |
| Many happy creatures there | N |
| Thro' the woodland swarm | M |
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| All the summer land is still | O |
| And the woodland stream is dark | P |
| Where the lily rocks its barque | P |
| Just below the mill | O |
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| If they found me icy there | N |
| 'Mid the lilies and pale whorls | Q |
| Of the cresses in my curls | Q |
| Wet of raven hair | N |
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| Fool and coward are you such | R |
| Would you have him thus to know | S |
| That you died for utter woe | S |
| And despair o'ermuch | R |
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| No my face a marble bust | T |
| As the Sphynx impassioned stern | U |
| Passions hid as in an urn | U |
| Burnt to bitter dust | T |
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| And I'll write him as he wrote | V |
| Making with his worded scorn | W |
| Tyrant crowned with stinging thorn | W |
| His cold cruel note | V |
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| You'll forget he says and I | I |
| Feel 'tis better for us twain | L |
| It may give you some small pain | L |
| But 'twill soon be by | I |
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| You are dark and Maud is light | X |
| I am dark and it is said | Y |
| Opposites are better wed | Y |
| So I think I'm right | X |
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| You are dark and Maud is fair | N |
| I could laugh at this excuse | Z |
| If this aching mad abuse | Z |
| Were not more than hair | N |
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| But I'll write him as a glad | A2 |
| Some few happy words and light | X |
| Touching on some past delight | X |
| That last year we had | A2 |
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| Not one line of broken vows | B2 |
| Sighs or hurtful tears unshed | A2 |
| Faithless lips far better dead | A2 |
| Nor a withered rose | C2 |
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| But a rose this Perle to wear | N |
| Perle des Jardins delicate | A2 |
| With faint fragrant life elate | A2 |
| When he weds her there | N |
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| So 'tis finished It is well | D2 |
| Go thou rose I have no tear | N |
| Kiss or word for thee to bear | N |
| And no woe to tell | D2 |
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| Only be thus full of life | E2 |
| Cold and calm impassionate | A2 |
| Filled with neither love nor hate | A2 |
| When he calls her wife | E2 |
Madison Julius Cawein
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