Affinities Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDE FGFGHIJI A KLKL MNMN OPOP A QRSQ TUUT BVVB| I | A |
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| I will take your thoughts to my heart | B |
| I will keep and garner them there | C |
| Locked in a casket apart | B |
| Far above rubies or rare | C |
| Pearls from the prodigal deep | D |
| Which men stake their lives on to find | E |
| And women their beauty to keep | D |
| I will treasure the pearls of your mind | E |
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| How long has it taken the earth | F |
| To crystallize gems in a mine | G |
| How long was the sea giving birth | F |
| To her pearls washed in bitterest brine | G |
| What sorrows what struggles what fierce | H |
| Endeavour of lives in the past | I |
| Hearts tempered by fire and tears | J |
| To fashion your manhood at last | I |
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| II | A |
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| TAKE me to thy heart and let me | K |
| Rest my head a little while | L |
| Rest my heart from griefs that fret me | K |
| In the mercy of thy smile | L |
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| In a twilight pause of feeling | M |
| Time to say a moment's grace | N |
| Put thy hands whose touch is healing | M |
| Put them gently on my face | N |
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| Found too late in Life's wild welter | O |
| All I ask for weal and woe | P |
| Friend a moment's friendly shelter | O |
| And thy blessing ere I go | P |
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| III | A |
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| FULL many loves and friendships dear | Q |
| Have blossomed brightly in my path | R |
| And some were like the primrose rathe | S |
| And withered with the vernal year | Q |
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| And some were like the joyous rose | T |
| Most prodigal with scent and hue | U |
| That glows while yet the sky is blue | U |
| And falls with every wind that blows | T |
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| Mere guests and annuals of the heart | B |
| But you are that perennial bay | V |
| Greenest when greener leaves decay | V |
| Whom only death shall bid depart | B |
Mathilde Blind
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