The Heart's Desire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDCDD EBEBB FGFGG HIHII| God made her body out of foam and flowers | A |
| And for her hair the dawn and darkness blent | B |
| Then called two planets from their heavenly towers | A |
| And in her face divinely eloquent | B |
| Gave them a firmament | B |
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| God made her heart of rosy ice and fire | C |
| Of snow and flame that freezes while it burns | D |
| And of a starbeam and a moth's desire | C |
| He made her soul to'ards which my longing turns | D |
| And all my being yearns | D |
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| So is my life a prisoner unto passion | E |
| Enslaved of her who gives nor sign nor word | B |
| So in the cage her loveliness doth fashion | E |
| Is love endungeoned like a golden bird | B |
| That sings but is not heard | B |
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| Could it but once convince her with beseeching | F |
| But once compel her as the sun the South | G |
| Could it but once fond arms around her reaching | F |
| Upon the red carnation of her mouth | G |
| Dew its eternal drouth | G |
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| Then might I rise victorious over sadness | H |
| O'er fate and change and with but little care | I |
| Torched by the glory of that moment's gladness | H |
| Breast the black mountain of my life's despair | I |
| And die or do and dare | I |
Madison Julius Cawein
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