Young Love Xiv - A June Lily Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGAHIJ KLMNOPQRSATUVWBXNY ZZRJOA2B2C2TD2E2 F2G2H2I2J2K2L2M2N2 CHHAThe poet dramatises his Lady's loneliness | A |
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Alone once more alone how like a tomb | B |
My little parlour sounds which only now | C |
Yearned like some holy chancel with his voice | D |
So still so empty Surely one might fear | E |
The walls should meet in ruinous collapse | F |
That held no more his music Yet they stand | G |
Firm in a foolish firmness meaningless | A |
As frescoed sepulchre some Pharaoh built | H |
But never came to sleep in built indeed | I |
For that grey moth to flit in like a ghost | J |
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Alone another feast day come and gone | K |
Watched through the weeks as in my garden there | L |
I watch a seedling grow from blade to bud | M |
Impatient for its blossom So this day | N |
Has bloomed at last and we have plucked its flower | O |
And shared its sweetness and once more the time | P |
Is as that stalk from which but now I plucked | Q |
Its last June lily as a parting sign | R |
Yea but he seemed to love it yet if he | S |
But craved it in deceit of tenderness | A |
To make my heart glow brighter with a lie | T |
Will it indeed be cherished as he said | U |
Or will he keep it near his book a while | V |
And when grown rank forget it in his glass | W |
And leave it for the maid who dusts his room | B |
To clear away and cast upon the heap | X |
Or may be will he bury it away | N |
In some old drawer with other mummy flowers | Y |
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Nay but I wrong thee dear one thinking so | Z |
My boy my love my poet Nay I know | Z |
Thy lonely room tomb like to thee as mine | R |
Tomb like as tomb of some returning ghost | J |
Seems only bright about my lily flower | O |
And mayhap while I wrong thee thus in thought | A2 |
Thou bendest o'er it feigning for some ease | B2 |
Of parted ache conceits of poet wit | C2 |
On petal and on stamen let me try | T |
If lilies be alike thine is as this | D2 |
I wonder if thy reading tallies too | E2 |
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Six petals with a dewdrop in their heart | F2 |
Six pure brave years an ivory cup of tears | G2 |
Six pearly pillared stamens golden crowned | H2 |
Growing from out the dewdrop and a seventh | I2 |
Soaring alone trilobed and mystic green | J2 |
Six pearl bright years aflower with gold of joy | K2 |
Sprung from the heart of those brave tear fed years | L2 |
But what that seventh single stamen is | M2 |
My little wit must leave for thee to tell | N2 |
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But neither poet nor a sibyl thou | C |
What brave conceit had he my poet built | H |
No jugglery of numbers that mean nought | H |
That can mean nought for ever unto us | A |
Richard Le Gallienne
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