Love's Arithmetic Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCD EFGFGEE HFFHIJGGHHGKFKFL HMHHMHNOHNO H| You often ask me love how much I love you | A |
| Bidding my fancy find | B |
| An answer to your mind | B |
| I say Past count as there are stars above you | A |
| You shake your head and say | C |
| Many and bright are they | C |
| But that is not enough | D |
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| Again I try | E |
| If all the leaves on all the trees | F |
| Were counted over | G |
| And all the waves on all the seas | F |
| More times your lover | G |
| Yea more than twice ten thousand times am I | E |
| 'Tis not enough again you make reply | E |
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| How many blades of grass one day I said | H |
| Are there from here to China how many bees | F |
| Have gathered honey through the centuries | F |
| Tell me how many roses have bloomed red | H |
| Since the first rose till this rose in your hair | I |
| How many butterflies are born each year | J |
| How many raindrops are there in a shower | G |
| How many kisses darling in an hour | G |
| Thereat you smiled and shook your golden head | H |
| Ah not enough you said | H |
| Then said I Dear it is not in my power | G |
| To tell how much how many ways my love | K |
| Unnumbered are its ways even as all these | F |
| Nor any depth so deep nor height above | K |
| May match therewith of any stars or seas | F |
| I would hear more you smiled | L |
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| Then love I said | H |
| This will I do unbind me all this gold | M |
| Too heavy for your head | H |
| And one by one I'll count each shining thread | H |
| And when the tale of all its wealth is told | M |
| As much as that you said | H |
| Then the full sum of all my love I'll speak | N |
| To the last unit tell the thing you ask | O |
| Thereat the gold in gleaming torrents shed | H |
| Fell loose adown each cheek | N |
| Hiding you from me I began my task | O |
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| 'Twill last our lives you said | H |
Richard Le Gallienne
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