Kindliness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDDEAEAEAFFAGGA HAHIHIJKLMAANNAAWhen love has changed to kindliness | A |
Oh love our hungry lips that press | A |
So tight that Time's an old god's dream | B |
Nodding in heaven and whisper stuff | C |
Seven million years were not enough | C |
To think on after make it seem | B |
Less than the breath of children playing | D |
A blasphemy scarce worth the saying | D |
A sorry jest When love has grown | E |
To kindliness to kindliness | A |
And yet the best that either's known | E |
Will change and wither and be less | A |
At last than comfort or its own | E |
Remembrance And when some caress | A |
Tendered in habit once a flame | F |
All heaven sang out to wakes the shame | F |
Unworded in the steady eyes | A |
We'll have that day what shall we do | G |
Being so noble kill the two | G |
Who've reached their second best Being wise | A |
Break cleanly off and get away | H |
Follow down other windier skies | A |
New lures alone Or shall we stay | H |
Since this is all we've known content | I |
In the lean twilight of such day | H |
And not remember not lament | I |
That time when all is over and | J |
Hand never flinches brushing hand | K |
And blood lies quiet for all you're near | L |
And it's but spoken words we hear | M |
Where trumpets sang when the mere skies | A |
Are stranger and nobler than your eyes | A |
And flesh is flesh was flame before | N |
And infinite hungers leap no more | N |
In the chance swaying of your dress | A |
And love has changed to kindliness | A |
Rupert Brooke
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