I Charge You Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD EE FF GG HH II JJ KK| I charge you O winds of the West O winds with the wings of the dove | A |
| That ye blow o'er the brows of my Love breathing low that I sicken for love | A |
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| I charge you O dews of the Dawn O tears of the star of the morn | B |
| That ye fall at the feet of my love with the sound of one weeping forlorn | B |
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| I charge you O birds of the Air O birds flying home to your nest | C |
| That ye sing in his ears of the joy that for ever has fled from my breast | C |
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| I charge you O flowers of the Earth O frailest of things and most fair | D |
| That ye droop in his path as the life in me shrivels consumed by despair | D |
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| O Moon when he lifts up his face when he seeth the waning of thee | E |
| A memory of her who lies wan on the limits of life let it be | E |
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| Many tears cannot quench nor my sighs extinguish the flames of love's fire | F |
| Which lifteth my heart like a wave and smites it and breaks its desire | F |
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| I rise like one in a dream when I see the red sun flaring low | G |
| That drags me back shuddering from sleep each morning to life with its woe | G |
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| I go like one in a dream unbidden my feet know the way | H |
| To that garden where love stood in blossom with the red and white hawthorn of May | H |
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| The song of the throstle is hushed and the fountain is dry to its core | I |
| The moon cometh up as of old she seeks but she finds him no more | I |
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| The pale faced pitiful moon shines down on the grass where I weep | J |
| My face to the earth and my breast in an anguish ne'er soothed into sleep | J |
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| The moon returns and the spring birds warble trees burst into leaf | K |
| But Love once gone goes for ever and all that endures is the grief | K |
Mathilde Blind
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