Parables Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBD EFEF FGH IJIJ FFKF FLFL KFKF A MALA NKFK OPQP| I | A |
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| Dear Love you ask if I be true | B |
| If other women move | C |
| The heart that only beats for you | B |
| With pulses all of love | D |
| - | |
| Out in the chilly dew one morn | E |
| I plucked a wild sweet rose | F |
| A little silver bud new born | E |
| And longing to unclose | F |
| - | |
| I took it loving new born things | F |
| I knew my heart was warm | G |
| 'O little silver rose come in | H |
| And shelter from the storm ' | - |
| - | |
| And soon against my body pressed | I |
| I felt its petals part | J |
| And looking down within my breast | I |
| I saw its golden heart | J |
| - | |
| O such a golden heart it has | F |
| Your eyes may never see | F |
| To others it is always shut | K |
| It opens but for me | F |
| - | |
| But that is why you see me pass | F |
| The honeysuckle there | L |
| And leave the lilies in the grass | F |
| Although they be so fair | L |
| - | |
| Why the strange orchid half accurst | K |
| Circe of flowers she grows | F |
| Can tempt me not see in my heart | K |
| Silver and gold my rose | F |
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| II | A |
| - | |
| Deep in a hidden lane we were | M |
| My little love and I | A |
| When lo as we stood kissing there | L |
| A flower against the sky | A |
| - | |
| Frail as a tear its beauty hung | N |
| O spare it little hand | K |
| But innocence like its alas | F |
| Desire may not withstand | K |
| - | |
| And so I clambered up the bank | O |
| And threw the blossom down | P |
| But we were sadder for its sake | Q |
| As we walked back to town | P |
Richard Le Gallienne
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