To A Belle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABAACBC DBABAEFG HAIAJKLK MBGBNABA DOBOAAPA QDQDRSAS| All that thou art I thrillingly | A |
| And sensibly do feel | A |
| For my eye doth see and my ear doth hear | B |
| And my heart is not of steel | A |
| I meet thee in the festal hall | A |
| I turn thee in the dance | C |
| And I wait as would a worshipper | B |
| The giving of thy glance | C |
| - | |
| Thy beauty is as undenied | D |
| As the beauty of a star | B |
| And thy heart beats just as equally | A |
| Whate'er thy praises are | B |
| And so long without a parallel | A |
| Thy loveliness hath shone | E |
| That follow'd like the tided moon | F |
| Thou mov'st as calmly on | G |
| - | |
| Thy worth I for myself have seen | H |
| I know that thou art leal | A |
| Leal to a woman's gentleness | I |
| And thine own spirit's weal | A |
| Thy thoughts are deeper than a dream | J |
| And holier than gay | K |
| And thy mind is a harp of gentle strings | L |
| Where angel fingers play | K |
| - | |
| I know all this I feel all this | M |
| And my heart believes it true | B |
| And my fancy hath often borne me on | G |
| As a lover's fancies do | B |
| And I have a heart that is strong and deep | N |
| And would love with its human all | A |
| And it waits for a fetter that's sweet to wear | B |
| And would bound to a silken thrall | A |
| - | |
| But it loves not thee It would sooner bind | D |
| Its thoughts to the open sky | O |
| It would worship as soon a familiar star | B |
| That is bright to every eye | O |
| 'Twere to love the wind that is sweet to all | A |
| The wave of the beautiful sea | A |
| 'Twere to hope for all the light in Heaven | P |
| To hope for the love of thee | A |
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| But wert thou lowly yet leal as now | Q |
| Rich but in thine own mind | D |
| Humble in all but the queenly brow | Q |
| And to thine own glory blind | D |
| Were the world to prove but a faithless thing | R |
| And worshippers leave thy shrine | S |
| My love were then but a gift for thee | A |
| And my strong deep heart were thine | S |
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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