A Hymn Of Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDDE FGFGHIIJ FKFKLMML NONOPQQP RSRTUVVU| O hush sweet birds that linger in lonely song | A |
| Hold in your evening fragrance wet May bloom | B |
| But drooping branches and leaves that greenly throng | A |
| Darken and cover me over in tenderer gloom | B |
| As a water lily unclosing on some shy pool | C |
| Filled with rain upon tremulous water lying | D |
| With joy afraid to speak yet fain to be sighing | D |
| Its riches out my heart is full too full | E |
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| Votaries that have veiled their secret shrine | F |
| In veils of incense falteringly that rise | G |
| And stealing in milky clouds of wavering line | F |
| Round soaring pillars hang like adoring sighs | G |
| They watch the smoke ascending soft as thought | H |
| Till wide in the fragrant dimness peace is shed | I |
| And out of their perfect vision the world is fled | I |
| Because the heart sees pure when the eye sees not | J |
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| I too will veil my joy that is too divine | F |
| For my heart to comprehend or tongue to speak | K |
| The whole earth is my temple and Love the shrine | F |
| That all the hearts of the world worship and seek | K |
| But the incense cloud I burn to veil my bliss | L |
| Is woven of air and waters and living sun | M |
| Colour and odour and music and light made one | M |
| Come down O night and take from me all but this | L |
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| I dreamed of wonders strange in a strange air | N |
| But this my joy my dream my wonder is near | O |
| As grass to the earth that clings so close and fair | N |
| Nourished by all it nourishes O most dear | O |
| I dreamed of beauty pacing enchanted ground | P |
| But you with beauty over my waiting soul | Q |
| As the blood steals over the cheek at a heart throb stole | Q |
| In the beating of my heart I have known you I have found | P |
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| Incredulous world be far and tongues profane | R |
| For now in my spirit there burns a steadfast faith | S |
| No longer I fear you earth's sad bondage vain | R |
| Nor prison walls of Time nor the gates of Death | T |
| For the marvel that was most marvellous is most true | U |
| To the music that moves the universe moves my heart | V |
| And the song of the starry worlds I sing apart | V |
| In the night and shadow and stillness Love for you | U |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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