Love-trilogy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBC DEDE FGFF HIII JKJK AJLJL JLJL JLJL MBMB NONO APP QQ FF NN JJ NN MM OO NN RR SS| I | A |
| SHE stood against the Orient sun | B |
| Her face inscrutable for light | C |
| A myriad larks in unison | B |
| Sang o'er her soaring out of sight | C |
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| A myriad flowers around her feet | D |
| Burst flame like from the yielding sod | E |
| Till all the wandering airs were sweet | D |
| With incense mounting up to God | E |
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| A mighty rainbow shook inclined | F |
| Towards her from the Occident | G |
| Girdling the cloud wrack which enshrined | F |
| Half the light bearing firmament | F |
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| Lit showers flashed golden o'er the hills | H |
| And trees flung silver to the breeze | I |
| And scattering diamonds fleet foot rills | I |
| Fled laughingly across the leas | I |
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| Yea Love the skylarks laud but thee | J |
| And writ in flowers thine awful name | K |
| Spring is thy shade dread Ecstasy | J |
| And life a brand which feeds thy flame | K |
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| II | A |
| WINDING all my life about thee | J |
| Let me lay my lips on thine | L |
| What is all the world without thee | J |
| Mine oh mine | L |
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| Let me press my heart out on thee | J |
| Crush it like a fiery vine | L |
| Spilling sacramental on thee | J |
| Love's red wine | L |
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| Let thy strong eyes yearning o'er me | J |
| Draw me with their force divine | L |
| All my soul has gone before me | J |
| Clasping thine | L |
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| Irresistibly I follow | M |
| As wherever we may run | B |
| Runs our shadow as the swallow | M |
| Seeks the sun | B |
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| Yea I tremble swoon surrender | N |
| All my spirit to thy sway | O |
| As a star is drowned in splendour | N |
| Of the day | O |
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| III | A |
| I CHARGE you O winds of the West O winds with the wings of the dove | P |
| That ye blow o'er the brows of my Love breathing low that I sicken for love | P |
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| I charge you O dews of the Dawn O tears of the star of the morn | Q |
| That ye fall at the feet of my love with the sound of one weeping forlorn | Q |
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| I charge you O birds of the Air O birds flying home to your nest | F |
| That ye sing in his ears of the joy that for ever has fled from my breast | F |
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| I charge you O flowers of the Earth O frailest of things and most fair | N |
| That ye droop in his path as the life in me shrivels consumed by despair | N |
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| O Moon when he lifts up his face when he seeth the waning of thee | J |
| A memory of her who lies wan on the limits of life let it be | J |
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| Many tears cannot quench nor my sighs extinguish the flames of love's fire | N |
| Which lifteth my heart like a wave and smites it and breaks its desire | N |
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| I rise like one in a dream when I see the red sun flaring low | M |
| That drags me back shuddering from sleep each morning to life with its woe | M |
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| I go like one in a dream unbidden my feet know the way | O |
| To that garden where love stood in blossom with the red and white hawthorn of May | O |
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| The song of the throstle is hushed and the fountain is dry to its core | N |
| The moon cometh up as of old she seeks but she finds him no more | N |
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| The pale faced pitiful moon shines down on the grass where I weep | R |
| My face to the earth and my breast in an anguish ne'er soothed into sleep | R |
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| The moon returns and the spring birds warble trees burst into leaf | S |
| But Love once gone goes for ever and all that endures is the grief | S |
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