The Heart On The Sleeve Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL MNONPLPLQQ| I wore my heart upon my sleeve | A |
| Tis most unwise they say to do | B |
| But then how could I but believe | A |
| The foolish thing was safe with you | B |
| Yet had I known 'twas safer far | C |
| With wolves and tigers the wild sea | D |
| Were kinder to it than you are | C |
| Sweetheart how you must laugh at me | D |
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| Yet am I glad I did not know | E |
| That creatures of such tender bloom | F |
| Beneath their sanctuary snow | E |
| Were such cold ministers of doom | F |
| For had I known as I began | G |
| To love you ere we flung apart | H |
| I had not been so glad a man | G |
| As holds his lady to his heart | H |
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| And am I lonely here to night | I |
| With empty eyes the cause is this | J |
| Your face it was that gave me sight | I |
| My heart ran over with your kiss | J |
| Still do I think that what I laid | K |
| Before the altar of your face | L |
| Flower of words that shall not fade | K |
| Were worthy of a moment's grace | L |
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| Some thoughtless lightly dropped largesse | M |
| A touch of your immortal hand | N |
| Laid on my brow in tenderness | O |
| Though you could never understand | N |
| And yet with hungered lips to touch | P |
| Your feet of pearl and in your face | L |
| To look a little was over much | P |
| In heaven is no such fair a place | L |
| As broken hearted at your feet | Q |
| To lie there and to kiss them sweet | Q |
Richard Le Gallienne
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