Young Love Xiv - A June Lily Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGAHIJ KLMNOPQRSATUVWBXNY ZZRJOA2B2C2TD2E2 F2G2H2I2J2K2L2M2N2 CHHA

The poet dramatises his Lady's lonelinessA
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Alone once more alone how like a tombB
My little parlour sounds which only nowC
Yearned like some holy chancel with his voiceD
So still so empty Surely one might fearE
The walls should meet in ruinous collapseF
That held no more his music Yet they standG
Firm in a foolish firmness meaninglessA
As frescoed sepulchre some Pharaoh builtH
But never came to sleep in built indeedI
For that grey moth to flit in like a ghostJ
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Alone another feast day come and goneK
Watched through the weeks as in my garden thereL
I watch a seedling grow from blade to budM
Impatient for its blossom So this dayN
Has bloomed at last and we have plucked its flowerO
And shared its sweetness and once more the timeP
Is as that stalk from which but now I pluckedQ
Its last June lily as a parting signR
Yea but he seemed to love it yet if heS
But craved it in deceit of tendernessA
To make my heart glow brighter with a lieT
Will it indeed be cherished as he saidU
Or will he keep it near his book a whileV
And when grown rank forget it in his glassW
And leave it for the maid who dusts his roomB
To clear away and cast upon the heapX
Or may be will he bury it awayN
In some old drawer with other mummy flowersY
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Nay but I wrong thee dear one thinking soZ
My boy my love my poet Nay I knowZ
Thy lonely room tomb like to thee as mineR
Tomb like as tomb of some returning ghostJ
Seems only bright about my lily flowerO
And mayhap while I wrong thee thus in thoughtA2
Thou bendest o'er it feigning for some easeB2
Of parted ache conceits of poet witC2
On petal and on stamen let me tryT
If lilies be alike thine is as thisD2
I wonder if thy reading tallies tooE2
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Six petals with a dewdrop in their heartF2
Six pure brave years an ivory cup of tearsG2
Six pearly pillared stamens golden crownedH2
Growing from out the dewdrop and a seventhI2
Soaring alone trilobed and mystic greenJ2
Six pearl bright years aflower with gold of joyK2
Sprung from the heart of those brave tear fed yearsL2
But what that seventh single stamen isM2
My little wit must leave for thee to tellN2
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But neither poet nor a sibyl thouC
What brave conceit had he my poet builtH
No jugglery of numbers that mean noughtH
That can mean nought for ever unto usA

Richard Le Gallienne



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