At Love's Beginning. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ FFKKLI might not have it then I might not yet | A |
She was so near to me could I forget | A |
She might be nearer There was in her eyes | B |
What shall I say a hint of the sunrise | B |
Of her heart's day would it then break on me | C |
In my life's glory or should I but see | C |
The malediction of that morning pour | D |
Disaster on my heart for evermore | D |
I did not know and all I was became | E |
A hush a wonder I scarce breathed her name | E |
Scarce dared to read her eyes too deeply lest | F |
Wrath in their tenderness should be exprest | F |
When suddenly love's lightning ran a streak | G |
Up the white throat into the pallid cheek | G |
Her eyes took wonder too and even thus | H |
What we to either were revealed to us | H |
Rose like God's heaven at once in such a way | I |
For aye and her eyes fell as mine took sway | I |
Upon the moment when she knew it all | J |
And knew in knowing it beyond recall | J |
Was the confession which her heart had made | F |
With eyes not lips ere lips to mine were laid | F |
That mystic moment when all she was drew | K |
Out of herself as all that I was too | K |
Emptied of self then found itself in her | L |
Robert Crawford
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