Alma Venus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBCDEFFE GHIGIIII JKLKMNMN IOIOPIPII NGNGGQR QRIISTTS| Only a breath hardly a breath The shore | A |
| Is still a huddled alabaster floor | A |
| Of shelving ice and shattered slabs of cold | B |
| Stern wreckage of the fiercely frozen wave | C |
| Gleaming in mailed wastes of white and gold | B |
| As though the sea in an enchanted grave | C |
| Of fearful crystal locked no more shall stir | D |
| Softly all lover to the April moon | E |
| Hardly a breath yet was I now aware | F |
| Of a most delicate balm upon the air | F |
| Almost a voice that almost whispered soon | E |
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| Not of the earth it was no living thing | G |
| Moves in the iron landscape far or near | H |
| Saving in raucous flight the winter crow | I |
| Staining the whiteness with its ebon wing | G |
| Or silver sailing gull or 'mid the drear | I |
| Rock cedars like a summer soul astray | I |
| A lone red squirrel makes believe to play | I |
| Nibbling the frozen snow | I |
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| Not of the earth that hath not scent nor song | J |
| Nor hope of aught nor memory nor dream | K |
| Nor any speech upon its sullen tongue | L |
| Nor any liberty of running stream | K |
| Not of the earth that hath forgot to smile | M |
| But strangely wafted o'er the frozen sea | N |
| As from some hidden Cytherean isle | M |
| Veil within veil the sweetness came to me | N |
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| Beyond the heaving glitter of the floe | I |
| The free blue water sparkles to the sky | O |
| Losing itself in brightness to and fro | I |
| Long bands of mists trail luminously by | O |
| And as behind a screen on the sea's rim | P |
| Hid softnesses of sunshine come and go | I |
| And shadowy coasts in sudden glory swim | P |
| O land made out of distance and desire | I |
| With ports of mystic pearl and crests of fire | I |
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| Thence somewhere in the spaces of the sea | N |
| Travelled this halcyon breath presaging Spring | G |
| Over the water even now secretly | N |
| She maketh ready in her hands to bring | G |
| Blossom and blade and wing | G |
| And soon the wave shall ripple with her feet | Q |
| And her wild hair be blown about the skies | R |
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| And with her bosom all the world grow sweet | Q |
| And blue with the sea blue of her deep eyes | R |
| The meadow like another sea shall flower | I |
| And all the earth be song and singing shower | I |
| While watching in some hollow of the grass | S |
| By the sea's edge I may behold her stand | T |
| With rosy feet upon the yellow sand | T |
| Pause in a dream and to the woodland pass | S |
Richard Le Gallienne
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