Poppy And Mandragora Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFF GGHHIIJJKL MMCCNNOOPP QQRRSSTTUU VVWWXXYXZZ GGXXXXA2B2XX C2C2D2D2E2E2F2F2G2G2Let us go far from here | A |
Here there is sadness in the early year | B |
Here sorrow waits where joy went laughing late | C |
The sicklied face of heaven hangs like hate | C |
Above the woodland and the meadowland | D |
And Spring hath taken fire in her hand | D |
Of frost and made a dead bloom of her face | E |
Which was a flower of marvel once and grace | E |
And sweet serenity and stainless glow | F |
Delay not Let us go | F |
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Let us go far away | G |
Into the sunrise of a fairer May | G |
Where all the nights resign them to the moon | H |
And drug their souls with odor and soft tune | H |
And tell their dreams in starlight where the hours | I |
Teach immortality with fadeless flowers | I |
And all the day the bee weights down the bloom | J |
And all the night the moth shakes strange perfume | J |
Like music from the flower bells' affluence | K |
Let us go far from hence | L |
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Why should we sit and weep | M |
And yearn with heavy eyelids still to sleep | M |
Forever hiding from our hearts the hate | C |
Death within death life doth accumulate | C |
Like winter snows along the barren leas | N |
And sterile hills whereon no lover sees | N |
The crocus limn the beautiful in flame | O |
Or hyacinth and jonquil write the name | O |
Of Love in fire for each passer by | P |
Why should we sit and sigh | P |
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We will not stay and long | Q |
Here where our souls are wasting for a song | Q |
Where no bird sings and dim beneath the stars | R |
No silvery water strikes melodious bars | R |
And in the rocks and forest covered hills | S |
No quick tongued echo from her grotto fills | S |
With eery syllables the solitude | T |
The vocal image of the voice that wooed | T |
She of wild sounds the airy looking glass | U |
Our souls are tired alas | U |
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What should we say to her | V |
To Spring who in our hearts makes no sweet stir | V |
Who looks not on us nor gives thought unto | W |
Too busy with the birth of flowers and dew | W |
And vague gold wings within the chrysalis | X |
Or Love who will not miss us had no kiss | X |
To give your soul or the sad soul of me | Y |
Who bound our hearts to her in poesy | X |
Long since and wear her badge of service still | Z |
Have we not served our fill | Z |
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We will go far away | G |
Song will not care who slays our souls each day | G |
With the dark daggers of denying eyes | X |
And lips of silence Had she sighed us lies | X |
Not passionate yet falsely tremulous | X |
And lent her mouth to ours in mockery thus | X |
Smiled from calm eyes as if appreciative | A2 |
Then then our love had taught itself to live | B2 |
Feeding itself on hope and recompense | X |
But no So let us hence | X |
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So be the Bible shut | C2 |
Of all her Beauty and her wisdom but | C2 |
A clasp for memory We will not seek | D2 |
The light that came not when the soul was weak | D2 |
With longing and the darkness gave no sign | E2 |
Of star born comfort Nay why kneel and whine | E2 |
Sad psalms of patience and hosannas of | F2 |
Old hope and dreary canticles of love | F2 |
Let us depart since as we long supposed | G2 |
For us God's book was closed | G2 |
Madison Julius Cawein
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