Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKFK LHMH NOPO QRSR TUVU WLCL QRXR YKZK A2B2C2B2 RKD2K E2UF2U G2H2I2H2 J2FK2F L2OM2O N2HO2H P2Q2VQ2 KBR2B S2T2DT2 U2RV2R W2X2OX2 Y2S2HS2

All thoughts all passions all delightsA
Whatever stirs this mortal frameB
Are all but ministers of LoveC
And feed his sacred flameB
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Oft in my waking dreams do ID
Live o'er again that happy hourE
When midway on the mount I layF
Beside the ruined towerE
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The moonshine stealing o'er the sceneG
Had blended with the lights of eveH
And she was there my hope my joyI
My own dear GenevieveH
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She leant against the armed manJ
The statue of the armed knightK
She stood and listened to my layF
Amid the lingering lightK
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Few sorrows hath she of her ownL
My hope my joy my GenevieveH
She loves me best whene'er I singM
The songs that make her grieveH
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I played a soft and doleful airN
I sang an old and moving storyO
An old rude song that suited wellP
That ruin wild and hoaryO
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She listened with a flitting blushQ
With downcast eyes and modest graceR
For well she knew I could not chooseS
But gaze upon her faceR
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I told her of the Knight that woreT
Upon his shield a burning brandU
And that for ten long years he wooedV
The Lady of the LandU
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I told her how he pined and ahW
The deep the low the pleading toneL
With which I sang another's loveC
Interpreted my ownL
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She listened with a flitting blushQ
With downcast eyes and modest graceR
And she forgave me that I gazedX
Too fondly on her faceR
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But when I told the cruel scornY
That crazed that bold and lovely KnightK
And that he crossed the mountain woodsZ
Nor rested day nor nightK
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That sometimes from the savage denA2
And sometimes from the darksome shadeB2
And sometimes starting up at onceC2
In green and sunny gladeB2
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There came and looked him in the faceR
An angel beautiful and brightK
And that he knew it was a FiendD2
This miserable KnightK
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And that unknowing what he didE2
He leaped amid a murderous bandU
And saved from outrage worse than deathF2
The Lady of the LandU
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And how she wept and clasped his kneesG2
And how she tended him in vainH2
And ever strove to expiateI2
The scorn that crazed his brainH2
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And that she nursed him in a caveJ2
And how his madness went awayF
When on the yellow forest leavesK2
A dying man he layF
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His dying words but when I reachedL2
That tenderest strain of all the dittyO
My faltering voice and pausing harpM2
Disturbed her soul with pityO
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All impulses of soul and senseN2
Had thrilled my guileless GenevieveH
The music and the doleful taleO2
The rich and balmy eveH
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And hopes and fears that kindle hopeP2
An undistinguishable throngQ2
And gentle wishes long subduedV
Subdued and cherished longQ2
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She wept with pity and delightK
She blushed with love and virgin shameB
And like the murmur of a dreamR2
I heard her breathe my nameB
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Her bosom heaved she stepped asideS2
As conscious of my look she steppedT2
Then suddenly with timorous eyeD
She fled to me and weptT2
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She half enclosed me with her armsU2
She pressed me with a meek embraceR
And bending back her head looked upV2
And gazed upon my faceR
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'Twas partly love and partly fearW2
And partly 'twas a bashful artX2
That I might rather feel than seeO
The swelling of her heartX2
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I calmed her fears and she was calmY2
And told her love with virgin prideS2
And so I won my GenevieveH
My bright and beauteous BrideS2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge



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