Psyche Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDCD EFGHIJIJ AKKALMLM NOONPQPQ RSDRTFTG UVVUWAWA XYYXZA2ZA2 B2C2C2B2D2GD2G| She is not fair as some are fair | A |
| Cold as the snow as sunshine gay | B |
| On her clear brow come grief what may | B |
| She suffers not too stern an air | A |
| But grave in silence sweet in speech | C |
| Loves neither mockery nor disdain | D |
| Gentle to all to all doth teach | C |
| The charm of deeming nothing vain | D |
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| She joined me and we wandered on | E |
| And I rejoiced I cared not why | F |
| Deeming it immortality | G |
| To walk with such a soul alone | H |
| Primroses pale grew all around | I |
| Violets and moss and ivy wild | J |
| Yet drinking sweetness from the ground | I |
| I was but conscious that she smiled | J |
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| The wind blew all her shining hair | A |
| From her sweet brows and she the while | K |
| Put back her lovely head to smile | K |
| On my enchanted spirit there | A |
| Jonquils and pansies round her head | L |
| Gleamed softly but a heavenlier hue | M |
| Upon her perfect cheek was shed | L |
| And in her eyes a purer blue | M |
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| There came an end to break the spell | N |
| She murmured something in my ear | O |
| The words fell vague I did not hear | O |
| And ere I knew I said farewell | N |
| And homeward went with happy heart | P |
| And spirit dwelling in a gleam | Q |
| Rapt to a Paradise apart | P |
| With all the world become a dream | Q |
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| Yet now too soon the world's strong strife | R |
| Breaks on me pitiless again | S |
| The pride of passion hopes made vain | D |
| The wounds the weariness of life | R |
| And losing that forgetful sphere | T |
| For some less troubled world I sigh | F |
| If not divine more free more clear | T |
| Than this poor soiled humanity | G |
| - | |
| But when in trances of the night | U |
| Wakeful my lonely bed I keep | V |
| And linger at the gate of Sleep | V |
| Fearing lest dreams deny me light | U |
| Her image comes into the gloom | W |
| With her pale features moulded fair | A |
| Her breathing beauty morning bloom | W |
| My heart's delight my tongue's despair | A |
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| With loving hand she touches mine | X |
| Showers her soft tresses on my brow | Y |
| And heals my heart I know not how | Y |
| Bathing me with her looks divine | X |
| She beckons me and I arise | Z |
| And grief no more remembering | A2 |
| Wander again with rapturous eyes | Z |
| Through those enchanted lands of Spring | A2 |
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| Then as I walk with her in peace | B2 |
| I leave this troubled air below | C2 |
| Where hurrying sadly to and fro | C2 |
| Men toil and strain and cannot cease | B2 |
| Then freed from tyrannous Fate's control | D2 |
| Untouched by years or grief I see | G |
| Transfigured in that child like soul | D2 |
| The soiled soul of humanity | G |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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