The Last Tryst Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBB DEDEE FGFGH IJIJJ KLKLL MNMNN OPOPQ RJRJJ STSTT JUJUU| The cowbells wander through the woods | A |
| 'Neath arching boughs a stream slips by | B |
| In all the ferny solitude | C |
| A chipmunk and a butterfly | B |
| Are all that is and you and I | B |
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| This summer day with all its flowers | D |
| With all its green and gold and blue | E |
| Just for a little while is ours | D |
| Just for a little I and you | E |
| Till the stars rise and bring the dew | E |
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| One perfect day to us is given | F |
| Tomorrow all the aching years | G |
| This is our last short day in heaven | F |
| The last of all our kisses nears | G |
| Then life too arid even for tears | H |
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| Here as the day ends we two end | I |
| Two that were one we said for ever | J |
| We had Eternity to spend | I |
| And laughed for joy to know that never | J |
| Two so divinely one could sever | J |
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| A year ago how rich we seemed | K |
| Like piles of gold our kisses lay | L |
| Enough to last our lives we dreamed | K |
| And lives to come we used to say | L |
| Yet are we at the last to day | L |
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| The last I say yet scarce believe | M |
| What all my heart is black with knowing | N |
| Doomed I yet watch for some reprieve | M |
| But know too well that love is going | N |
| As sure as yonder stream is flowing | N |
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| Look round us how the hot sun burns | O |
| In plots of glory here and there | P |
| Pouring its gold among the ferns | O |
| So burned my lips upon your hair | P |
| So rained our kisses love last year | Q |
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| We saw not where a shadow loomed | R |
| That from its first auroral hour | J |
| Our happy paradise fore doomed | R |
| A Fate within whose icy power | J |
| Love blooms as helpless as a flower | J |
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| Its shadow by the dial stands | S |
| The golden moments shudder past | T |
| Soon shall he smite apart our hands | S |
| In vain we hold each other fast | T |
| And the last kiss must come at last | T |
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| The last then be it charged with fire | J |
| With sacred passion wild and white | U |
| With such a glory of desire | J |
| We two shall vanish in its light | U |
| And find each other in God's sight | U |
Richard Le Gallienne
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