Reliquiae Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEE FFGG FFHH| This is all that is left this letter and this rose | A |
| And do you poor dreaming things for a moment suppose | A |
| That your little fire shall burn for ever and ever on | B |
| And this great fire be all but these ashes gone | C |
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| Flower of course she is but is she the only flower | D |
| She must vanish like all the rest at the funeral hour | D |
| And you that love her with brag of your all conquering thew | E |
| What in the eyes of the gods tall though you be are you | E |
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| You and she are no more yea a little less than we | F |
| And what is left of our loving is little enough to see | F |
| Sweet the relics thereof a rose a letter a glove | G |
| That in the end is all that remains of the mightiest love | G |
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| Six foot two what of that for Death is taller than he | F |
| And every moment Death gathers flowers as fair as she | F |
| And nothing you two can do or plan or purpose or dream | H |
| But will go the way of the wind and go the way of the stream | H |
Richard Le Gallienne
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