A Night In Babylon. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKK LLMMNOPPQQRRMSAATTLL QQDDBBLQ| We whom to night Love keeps awake | A |
| For his own joy may one day break | A |
| Our fast in some Leth an cave | B |
| When we but a faint memory have | C |
| Or none of such dear nights as this | D |
| Sweetheart thy lips again to kiss | D |
| Thy limbs to fold though all ends thus | E |
| And time makes such poor wrecks of us | E |
| Who feast to night on Love's own food | F |
| As in a heavenly solitude | F |
| And drink his wine this bliss of ours | G |
| Which makes our bodies bloom like flowers | G |
| In whose quick scents our souls escape | H |
| We know not where each wing d shape | H |
| That haply shall elude the curse | I |
| When we have lost the universe | I |
| In this night's Babylonian heart | J |
| Have then lost all that may impart | J |
| Life to the dead the lust of that | K |
| On which the purple heart grows fat | K |
| And thrills to prove that it can be | L |
| The bourne of its own ecstasy | L |
| Within a paradise whose skies | M |
| Have never known the sun to rise | M |
| Nor all the moony rapture wane | N |
| Clasp me Sweetheart and kiss again | O |
| Until we have so drunk the light | P |
| Of this delirious sweet night | P |
| Our souls may nevermore be dry | Q |
| Though death our bodies may deny | Q |
| The power to appease that thirst | R |
| Which Love's heat raised within us first | R |
| Ere he had taught our lips and eyes | M |
| The purport of his paradise | S |
| And made the trembling senses take | A |
| The night for day and keep awake | A |
| With all the strange delights that are | T |
| Under our Babylonian star | T |
| That came from chaos it may be | L |
| To guard our first night's mystery | L |
| And let his cloak of glory lie | Q |
| Over us dear who would not die | Q |
| Ah Sweetheart if all comes to this | D |
| And we must lose the sum of bliss | D |
| When we lie by the Leth an wave | B |
| And know that nothing Love can save | B |
| We may forget ourselves and be | L |
| Content with Death's tranquillity | Q |
Robert Crawford
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