Lover's Gifts Xlii: Are You A Mere Picture Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMINOPQRE STUVK| Are you a mere picture and not as true as those stars true as | A |
| this dust They throb with the pulse of things but you are | B |
| immensely aloof in your stillness painted form | C |
| The day was when you walked with me your breath warm your | D |
| limbs singing of life My world found its speech in your voice and | E |
| touched my heart with your face You suddenly stopped in your walk | F |
| in the shadow side of the Forever and I went on alone | G |
| Life like a child laughs shaking its rattle of death as it | H |
| runs it beckons me on I follow the unseen but you stand there | I |
| where you stopped behind that dust and those stars and you are a | J |
| mere picture | K |
| No it cannot be Had the life flood utterly stopped in you | L |
| it would stop the river in its flow and the foot fall of dawn in | M |
| her cadence of colours Had the glimmering dusk of your hair | I |
| vanished in the hopeless dark the woodland shade of summer would | N |
| die with its dreams | O |
| Can it be true that I forgot you We haste on without heed | P |
| forgetting the flowers on the roadside hedge Yet they breathe | Q |
| unaware into our forgetfulness filling it with music You have | R |
| moved from my world to take seat at the root of my life and | E |
| therefore is this forgetting remembrance lost in its own depth | S |
| You are no longer before my songs but one with them You came | T |
| to me with the first ray of dawn I lost you with the last gold of | U |
| evening Ever since I am always finding you through the dark No | V |
| you are no mere picture | K |
Rabindranath Tagore
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