Testamentum Amoris Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG| I cannot raise my eyelids up from sleep | A |
| But I am visited with thoughts of you | B |
| Slumber has no refreshment half so deep | A |
| As the sweet morn that wakes my heart anew | B |
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| I cannot put away life's trivial care | C |
| But you straightway steal on me with delight | D |
| My purest moments are your mirror fair | C |
| My deepest thought finds you the truth most bright | D |
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| You are the lovely regent of my mind | E |
| The constant sky to my unresting sea | F |
| Yet since 'tis you that rule me I but find | E |
| A finer freedom in such tyranny | F |
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| Were the world's anxious kingdoms governed so | G |
| Lost were their wrongs and vanished half their woe | G |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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