The Loveliest Face And The Wild Rose Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFGHIHI JDJDEKEK LMLMNDND OPOPAQRQ SGSGBTBT| The loveliest face I turned to her | A |
| Shut in 'mid savage rocks and trees | B |
| 'Twas in the May time of the year | C |
| And our two hearts were filled with ease | B |
| And pointed where a wild rose grew | D |
| Suddenly fair in that grim place | E |
| We should know all if we but knew | D |
| Whence came this flower and whence this face | E |
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| The loveliest face My thoughts went around | F |
| Strange sister of this little rose | G |
| So softly 'scaped from underground | F |
| O tell me if your beauty knows | G |
| Being itself so fair a thing | H |
| How came this lovely thing so fair | I |
| How came it to such blossoming | H |
| Leaning so strangely from the air | I |
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| The wonder of its being born | J |
| So lone and lovely even as you | D |
| Half maiden moon half maiden morn | J |
| And delicately sad with dew | D |
| How came it in this rocky place | E |
| Or shall I ask the rose if she | K |
| Knows how this marvel of your face | E |
| On this harsh planet came to be | K |
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| Earth's bluest eyes gazed into mine | L |
| And on her head Earth's brightest gold | M |
| Made all the rocks with glory shine | L |
| But still the secret went untold | M |
| For rose nor girl no more than I | N |
| Their own mysterious meaning knew | D |
| Save that alike from earth and sky | N |
| Each her enchanted being drew | D |
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| Both from deep wells of wonder sprang | O |
| Both children of the cosmic dream | P |
| Alike with yonder bird that sang | O |
| And little lives that flit and gleam | P |
| Sparks from the central rose of fire | A |
| That at the heart of being burns | Q |
| That draws the lily from the mire | R |
| And trodden dust to beauty turns | Q |
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| Strange wand of Beauty that transforms | S |
| Old dross to dreams that softly glows | G |
| On the fierce rainbowed front of storms | S |
| And smiles on unascended snows | G |
| That from the travail of lone seas | B |
| Wrests sighing shell and moonlit pearl | T |
| And gathers up all sorceries | B |
| In the white being of one girl | T |
Richard Le Gallienne
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