Primum Mobile Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACDCDC EFEFEGHGHG IJIJIKBKLK| When thou art gone then all the rest will go | A |
| Mornings no more shall dawn | B |
| Roses no more shall blow | A |
| Thy lovely face withdrawn | B |
| Nor woods grow green again after the snow | A |
| For of all these thy beauty was the dream | C |
| The soul the sap the song | D |
| To thee the bloom and beam | C |
| Of flower and star belong | D |
| And all the beauty thine of bird and stream | C |
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| Thy bosom was the moonrise and the morn | E |
| The roses of thy cheek | F |
| No lovely thing was born | E |
| But of thy face did speak | F |
| How shall all these endure of thee forlorn | E |
| The sad heart of the world grew glad through thee | G |
| Happy men toiled and spun | H |
| That had thy smile for fee | G |
| So flowers seek the sun | H |
| So singing rivers hasten to the sea | G |
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| Yet though the world bereft should bleakly bloom | I |
| And wanly make believe | J |
| Against the general doom | I |
| For me the earth you leave | J |
| Shall be for ever but a haunted room | I |
| Yea though my heart beat on a little space | K |
| When thou art strangely gone | B |
| To thy far hiding place | K |
| Soon shall I follow on | L |
| Out footing Death to over take thy face | K |
Richard Le Gallienne
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