Urania's Lover. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDABEFFEGHIIGHJKHJ LHMNLHKOOKPBQQPBGGGG| O poet thou art called to tread her ways | A |
| Hers mistress of the soul Urania fair | B |
| Ah God how fair how all adorable | C |
| But those who have wooed her can tell | D |
| All of thy nights and days | A |
| All of thy light and air | B |
| Hers only so thy soul shall haply win | E |
| Grace in those eyes | F |
| That goddess wise | F |
| Smile in that heaven man's highest have enter'd in | E |
| Thou'rt called to Love's high hest soul wooer thou | G |
| Of the divinest beauty man may know | H |
| Soul wooer and soul winner so thy feet | I |
| Fail not nor falter so earth's cheat | I |
| Clip not thy burning brow | G |
| With its chill wreath and so | H |
| Darken the heavenly light within the brain | J |
| But let thy forehead be | K |
| Starred with pure poesy | H |
| So thou to her high mystery attain | J |
| Thy love a Goddess and her heaven thy home | L |
| By the ethereal beauty in those eyes | H |
| O poet bless the loss of all things here | M |
| So but thy soul in that fine sphere | N |
| Beloved of her may roam | L |
| No more with wandering cries | H |
| At last may bow before her face and be | K |
| Though woman born divine | O |
| When all of hers is thine | O |
| And thou a star of God's ascendency | K |
| Ah through that heaven shall not the wonder trail | P |
| Of thy first worship like a comet's hair | B |
| Leagues on leagues floating from the flying star | Q |
| Shall not thy first faint steps afar | Q |
| Move like a being pale | P |
| Amid the glory there | B |
| Up to the voiceless beauty of her brow | G |
| As thou dost see as 'twere | G |
| Thy whole life with her there | G |
| See from that height the depth where thou art now | G |
Robert Crawford
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