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 delights | A |
| Whatever stirs this mortal frame | B |
| Are all but ministers of Love | C |
| And feed his sacred flame | B |
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| Oft in my waking dreams do I | D |
| Live o'er again that happy hour | E |
| When midway on the mount I lay | F |
| Beside the ruined tower | E |
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| The moonshine stealing o'er the scene | G |
| Had blended with the lights of eve | H |
| And she was there my hope my joy | I |
| My own dear Genevieve | H |
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| She leant against the armed man | J |
| The statue of the armed knight | K |
| She stood and listened to my lay | F |
| Amid the lingering light | K |
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| Few sorrows hath she of her own | L |
| My hope my joy my Genevieve | H |
| She loves me best whene'er I sing | M |
| The songs that make her grieve | H |
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| I played a soft and doleful air | N |
| I sang an old and moving story | O |
| An old rude song that suited well | P |
| That ruin wild and hoary | O |
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| She listened with a flitting blush | Q |
| With downcast eyes and modest grace | R |
| For well she knew I could not choose | S |
| But gaze upon her face | R |
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| I told her of the Knight that wore | T |
| Upon his shield a burning brand | U |
| And that for ten long years he wooed | V |
| The Lady of the Land | U |
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| I told her how he pined and ah | W |
| The deep the low the pleading tone | L |
| With which I sang another's love | C |
| Interpreted my own | L |
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| She listened with a flitting blush | Q |
| With downcast eyes and modest grace | R |
| And she forgave me that I gazed | X |
| Too fondly on her face | R |
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| But when I told the cruel scorn | Y |
| That crazed that bold and lovely Knight | K |
| And that he crossed the mountain woods | Z |
| Nor rested day nor night | K |
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| That sometimes from the savage den | A2 |
| And sometimes from the darksome shade | B2 |
| And sometimes starting up at once | C2 |
| In green and sunny glade | B2 |
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| There came and looked him in the face | R |
| An angel beautiful and bright | K |
| And that he knew it was a Fiend | D2 |
| This miserable Knight | K |
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| And that unknowing what he did | E2 |
| He leaped amid a murderous band | U |
| And saved from outrage worse than death | F2 |
| The Lady of the Land | U |
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| And how she wept and clasped his knees | G2 |
| And how she tended him in vain | H2 |
| And ever strove to expiate | I2 |
| The scorn that crazed his brain | H2 |
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| And that she nursed him in a cave | J2 |
| And how his madness went away | F |
| When on the yellow forest leaves | K2 |
| A dying man he lay | F |
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| His dying words but when I reached | L2 |
| That tenderest strain of all the ditty | O |
| My faltering voice and pausing harp | M2 |
| Disturbed her soul with pity | O |
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| All impulses of soul and sense | N2 |
| Had thrilled my guileless Genevieve | H |
| The music and the doleful tale | O2 |
| The rich and balmy eve | H |
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| And hopes and fears that kindle hope | P2 |
| An undistinguishable throng | Q2 |
| And gentle wishes long subdued | V |
| Subdued and cherished long | Q2 |
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| She wept with pity and delight | K |
| She blushed with love and virgin shame | B |
| And like the murmur of a dream | R2 |
| I heard her breathe my name | B |
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| Her bosom heaved she stepped aside | S2 |
| As conscious of my look she stepped | T2 |
| Then suddenly with timorous eye | D |
| She fled to me and wept | T2 |
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| She half enclosed me with her arms | U2 |
| She pressed me with a meek embrace | R |
| And bending back her head looked up | V2 |
| And gazed upon my face | R |
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| 'Twas partly love and partly fear | W2 |
| And partly 'twas a bashful art | X2 |
| That I might rather feel than see | O |
| The swelling of her heart | X2 |
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| I calmed her fears and she was calm | Y2 |
| And told her love with virgin pride | S2 |
| And so I won my Genevieve | H |
| My bright and beauteous Bride | S2 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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