Flos Aevorum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CDCDCD EFEFEF GHGIGH JKJLJK MNMOMN PAPAPA PQRQ| You must mean more than just this hour | A |
| You perfect thing so subtly fair | B |
| Simple and complex as a flower | A |
| Wrought with such planetary care | B |
| How patient the eternal power | A |
| That wove the marvel of your hair | B |
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| How long the sunlight and the sea | C |
| Wove and re wove this rippling gold | D |
| To rhythms of eternity | C |
| And many a flashing thing grew old | D |
| Waiting this miracle to be | C |
| And painted marvels manifold | D |
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| Still with his work unsatisfied | E |
| Eager each new effect to try | F |
| The solemn artist cast aside | E |
| Rainbow and shell and butterfly | F |
| As some stern blacksmith scatters wide | E |
| The sparks that from his anvil fly | F |
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| How many shells whorl within whorl | G |
| Litter the marges of the sphere | H |
| With wrack of unregarded pearl | G |
| To shape that little thing your ear | I |
| Creation just to make one girl | G |
| Hath travailed with exceeding fear | H |
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| The moonlight of forgotten seas | J |
| Dwells in your eyes and on your tongue | K |
| The honey of a million bees | J |
| And all the sorrows of all song | L |
| You are the ending of all these | J |
| The world grew old to make you young | K |
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| All time hath traveled to this rose | M |
| To the strange making of this face | N |
| Came agonies of fires and snows | M |
| And Death and April nights and days | O |
| Unnumbered unimagined throes | M |
| Find in this flower their meeting place | N |
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| Strange artist to my aching thought | P |
| Give answer all the patient power | A |
| That to this perfect ending wrought | P |
| Shall it mean nothing but an hour | A |
| Say not that it is all for nought | P |
| Time brings Eternity a flower | A |
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| All the words in all the world | P |
| Cannot tell you how I love you | Q |
| All the little stars that shine | R |
| To make a silver crown above you | Q |
Richard Le Gallienne
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