The Torments Of Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEEFFGGHHFIFIJJI KLKLMMLLM| Fragments and combined | A |
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| O Queens of Song descend from your home | B |
| From the golden halls of Olumpus on high | C |
| O shell divine now now become | D |
| Voiceful to utter mine heart's wild cry | C |
| O Calliope vouchsafe thine aid | E |
| Unto one whom the Muse of Love hath betrayed | E |
| Ah me I know not what to do | F |
| Who am wildered all in a strait betwixt two | F |
| I cry from a homeless heart storm tossed | G |
| As a child for her mother a young child lost | G |
| Yet not after all unattainable things | H |
| Do I strain nor I hope on passion's wings | H |
| To soar to the heavens' empyreal blue | F |
| But oh I yearn how I yearn to slake | I |
| My thirst where Love's feet brush the dew | F |
| For he who the strength of the mighty can break | I |
| He whose bitter sweetness no tongue may tell | J |
| The dragon whose onslaught none may quell | J |
| Love mine whole being doth Love's breath shake | I |
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| Ah sleep I cannot soft cushioned bed | K |
| Wooes never my wearied frame to sleep | L |
| No pillow brings rest to my throbbing head | K |
| From my couch as one in a nightmare I leap | L |
| Ever Eros is tossing to and fro | M |
| My spirit as when great storm winds blow | M |
| O'er a tempest tormented mountain steep | L |
| And down on its groaning oak woods sweep | L |
| So groaneth my spirit love scourged so | M |
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