The Oldest Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGFE HEEE| For before Eve was Lilith Old Tale | A |
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| quot These were never your true love's eyes | B |
| Why do you feign that you love them | C |
| You that broke from their constancies | B |
| And the wide calm brows above them | C |
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| This was never your true love's speech | D |
| Why do you thrill when you hear it | E |
| You that have ridden out of its reach | D |
| The width of the world or near it | E |
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| This was never your true love's hair | F |
| You that chafed when it bound you | G |
| Screened from knowledge or shame or care | F |
| In the night that it made around you quot | E |
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| quot All these things I know I know | H |
| And that's why my heart is breaking quot | E |
| quot Then what do you gain by pretending so quot | E |
| quot The joy of an old wound waking quot | E |
Rudyard Kipling
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