Love's Apotheosis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DBDB EFEF ABAB FGFG HBHB| Love me I care not what the circling years | A |
| To me may do | B |
| If but in spite of time and tears | C |
| You prove but true | B |
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| Love me albeit grief shall dim mine eyes | D |
| And tears bedew | B |
| I shall not e'en complain for then my skies | D |
| Shall still be blue | B |
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| Love me and though the winter snow shall pile | E |
| And leave me chill | F |
| Thy passion's warmth shall make for me meanwhile | E |
| A sun kissed hill | F |
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| And when the days have lengthened into years | A |
| And I grow old | B |
| Oh spite of pains and griefs and cares and fears | A |
| Grow thou not cold | B |
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| Then hand and hand we shall pass up the hill | F |
| I say not down | G |
| That twain go up of love who 've loved their fill | F |
| To gain love's crown | G |
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| Love me and let my life take up thine own | H |
| As sun the dew | B |
| Come sit my queen for in my heart a throne | H |
| Awaits for you | B |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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