Love's Portrait Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDDC CECECFFC GCGCABBA FGFGHCCH BBBBCIJC CKCKBCCB LCLCMBBM NKNKBOOB| Out of the day glare out of all uproar | A |
| Hurrying in ways disquieted bring me | B |
| To silence and earth's ancient peace restore | A |
| That with profounder vision I may see | B |
| In dew baptizing dimness let me lose | C |
| Tired thoughts dispeople the world haunted mind | D |
| With burning of interior fire refined | D |
| Cleanse all my sense then Love mine eyes unclose | C |
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| Let it be dawn and such low light increase | C |
| As when from darkness pure the hills emerge | E |
| And solemn foliage trembles through its peace | C |
| As with an ecstasy and round the verge | E |
| Of solitary coppices cold flowers | C |
| Freshen upon their clustered stalks and where | F |
| Wafts of wild odour sweeten the blue air | F |
| Drenched mosses dimly sparkle on old towers | C |
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| So for my spirit let the light be slow | G |
| And tender as among those dawning trees | C |
| That on this vision of my heart may grow | G |
| The beloved form by delicate degrees | C |
| The desired form that Earth was waiting for | A |
| Her last completion and felicity | B |
| Who through the dewy hush comes and for me | B |
| Sings a new meaning into all Time's lore | A |
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| Just dinted temples cheek and brow and hair | F |
| Ah never curve that wind breathed over snow | G |
| Could match what the divine hand moulded there | F |
| Or in her lips where life's own colours glow | G |
| Or in the throat the sweet well of her speech | H |
| Yet all forgotten when those eyelids raise | C |
| The beam of eyes that hold me in their gaze | C |
| Clear with a tenderness no words can reach | H |
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| Some silken shred whose fair embroidery throbbed | B |
| Once on a queen's young breast a mirror dimmed | B |
| That has held how much beauty and all robbed | B |
| One bright tress from a head that poets hymned | B |
| A rent flag that warm blood was spent for sighs | C |
| Faith love have made these fragrant and sweet pain | I |
| Quickens its pangs upon our pulse again | J |
| Charmed at a touch out of old histories | C |
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| But thou whence com'st thou bringing in thy face | C |
| More than all these are charged with Not faint myrrh | K |
| Of embalmed bliss dead passion's written trace | C |
| Half faded but triumphant and astir | K |
| Life tinges the cheek's change and the lips' red | B |
| Thy deep compassions thy long hopes and fears | C |
| Thy joys thine indignations and thy tears | C |
| To enrich these what stormy hearts have bled | B |
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| For thine unknown sake how has life's dear breath | L |
| Been cherished past despair how lifted fierce | C |
| In exultation has love smiled at death | L |
| For one hope hazarding the universe | C |
| What wisdom has been spelled from sorrow's book | M |
| What anguish in the patient will immured | B |
| What bliss made perfect what delight abjured | B |
| That in these eyes thine eyes at last might look | M |
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| O mystery out of ravin strife and wrong | N |
| Thou comest Time's last sweetness in the flower | K |
| Life's hope and want my never ended song | N |
| Futurity is folded in this hour | K |
| With all fruition joy and loss and smart | B |
| And death and birth the wooed the feared the unknown | O |
| And there our lives mid earth's vast undertone | O |
| Are beatings of one deep and mighty heart | B |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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