The Philosopher To His Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF GGHIJJ KKLLJJ MMAANN OOPQRR| DEAREST a look is but a ray | A |
| Reflected in a certain way | A |
| A word whatever tone it wear | B |
| Is but a trembling wave of air | B |
| A touch obedience to a clause | C |
| In nature's pure material laws | C |
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| The very flowers that bend and meet | D |
| In sweetening others grow more sweet | D |
| The clouds by day the stars by night | E |
| Inweave their floating locks of light | E |
| The rainbow Heaven's own forehead's braid | F |
| Is but the embrace of sun and shade | F |
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| Oh in the hour when I shall feel | G |
| Those shadows round my senses steal | G |
| When gentle eyes are weeping o'er | H |
| The clay that feels their tears no more | I |
| Then let thy spirit with me be | J |
| Or some sweet angel likest thee | J |
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| How few that love us have we found | K |
| How wide the world that girds them round | K |
| Like mountain streams we meet and part | L |
| Each living in the other's heart | L |
| Our course unknown our hope to be | J |
| Yet mingled in the distant sea | J |
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| But Ocean coils and heaves in vain | M |
| Bound in the subtle moonbeam's chain | M |
| And love and hope do but obey | A |
| Some cold capricious planet's ray | A |
| Which lights and leads the tide it charms | N |
| To Death's dark caves and icy arms | N |
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| Alas one narrow line is drawn | O |
| That links our sunset with our dawn | O |
| In mist and shade life's morning rose | P |
| And clouds are round it at its close | Q |
| But ah no twilight beam ascends | R |
| To whisper where that evening ends | R |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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