The Gardens Of Adonis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBCB DEFEFFGG HHIJKJK LLMNGNM OOPQPQP RRESESE TUTUTTVV| Belov d I would tell a ghostly thing | A |
| That hides beneath the simple name of Spring | A |
| Wild beyond hope the news the dead return | B |
| The shapes that slept their breath a frozen mist | C |
| Ascend from out sarcophagus and urn | B |
| Lips that were dust new redden to be kissed | C |
| Fires that were quenched re burn | B |
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| The gardens of Adonis bloom again | D |
| Proserpina may hold the lad no more | E |
| That in her arms the winter through hath lain | F |
| Up flings he from the hollow sounding door | E |
| Where Love hath bruised her rosy breast in vain | F |
| Ah through their tears the happy April rain | F |
| They like two stars aflame together run | G |
| Then lift immortal faces in the sun | G |
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| A faint far music steals from underground | H |
| And to the spirit's ear there comes the sound | H |
| The whisper vague and rustle delicate | I |
| Of myriad atoms stirring in their trance | J |
| That for the lifted hand of Order wait | K |
| Taking their stations in the cosmic dance | J |
| Mate linked to mystic mate | K |
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| And perished shapes rebuild themselves anew | L |
| Nourished on essences of fire and dew | L |
| And in earth's cheek but now so wistful wan | M |
| The colour floods and from deep wells of power | N |
| Rises the sap of resurrection | G |
| The dead branch buds the dry staff breaks in flower | N |
| The grass comes surging on | M |
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| These ghostly things that in November died | O |
| How come they thus again adream with pride | O |
| I saw the Red Rose lying in her tomb | P |
| Yet comes she lovelier back a redder rose | Q |
| What paints upon her cheek this vampire bloom | P |
| Belov d when to the dark thy beauty goes | Q |
| Thee too will Spring re lume | P |
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| Verily nothing dies a brief eclipse | R |
| Is all and this blessed union of our lips | R |
| Shall bind us still though we have lips no more | E |
| For as the Rose and as the gods are we | S |
| Returning ever but the shapes we wore | E |
| Shall have some look of immortality | S |
| More shining than before | E |
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| Make we our offerings at Adonis' shrine | T |
| For this is Love's own resurrection day | U |
| Bring we the honeyed cakes the sacred wine | T |
| And myrtle garlands on his altars lay | U |
| O Thou beloved alike of Proserpine | T |
| And Aphrodite to our prayers incline | T |
| Be thou propitious to this love of ours | V |
| And we the summer long shall bring thee flowers | V |
Richard Le Gallienne
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