The Lovers' Litany Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDAE FEFEDDAE GHGHDDAE IJIJEJEE EEDEKKDEE| Eyes of grey a sodden quay | A |
| Driving rain and falling tears | B |
| As the steamer wears to sea | A |
| In a parting storm of cheers | C |
| Sing for Faith and Hope are high | D |
| None so true as you and I | D |
| Sing the Lovers' Litany | A |
| quot Love like ours can never die quot | E |
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| Eyes of black a throbbing keel | F |
| Milky foam to left and right | E |
| Whispered converse near the wheel | F |
| In the brilliant tropic night | E |
| Cross that rules the Southern Sky | D |
| Stars that sweep and wheel and fly | D |
| Hear the Lovers' Litany | A |
| Love like ours can never die quot | E |
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| Eyes of brown a dusy plain | G |
| Split and parched with heat of June | H |
| Flying hoof and tightened rein | G |
| Hearts that beat the old old tune | H |
| Side by side the horses fly | D |
| Frame we now the old reply | D |
| Of the Lovers' Litany | A |
| quot Love like ours can never die quot | E |
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| Eyes of blue the Simla Hills | I |
| Silvered with the moonlight hoar | J |
| Pleading of the waltz that thrills | I |
| Dies and echoes round Benmore | J |
| quot Mabel quot quot Officers quot quot Good bye quot | E |
| Glamour wine and witchery | J |
| On my soul's sincerity | E |
| quot Love like ours can never die quot | E |
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| Maidens of your charity | E |
| Pity my most luckless state | E |
| Four times Cipid's debtor I | D |
| Bankrupt in quadruplicate | E |
| Yet despite this evil case | K |
| And a maiden showed me grace | K |
| Four and forty times would I | D |
| Sing the Lovers' Litany | E |
| quot Love like ours can never die quot | E |
Rudyard Kipling
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