Erinna Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDECFGHIJKLMNOPQRS TAUMVWXDY ZAA2WBB2GAC2QD2E2PF2 BG2AJH2I2J2K2EAL2M2H 2L2VN2L2DPVO2P2C C| They sent you in to say farewell to me | A |
| No do not shake your head I see your eyes | B |
| That shine with tears Sappho you saw the sun | C |
| Just now when you came hither and again | D |
| When you have left me all the shimmering | E |
| Great meadows will laugh lightly and the sun | C |
| Put round about you warm invisible arms | F |
| As might a lover decking you with light | G |
| I go toward darkness tho' I lie so still | H |
| If I could see the sun I should look up | I |
| And drink the light until my eyes were blind | J |
| I should kneel down and kiss the blades of grass | K |
| And I should call the birds with such a voice | L |
| With such a longing tremulous and keen | M |
| That they would fly to me and on the breast | N |
| Bear evermore to tree tops and to fields | O |
| The kiss I gave them Sappho tell me this | P |
| Was I not sometimes fair My eyes my mouth | Q |
| My hair that loved the wind were they not worth | R |
| The breath of love upon them Yet he passed | S |
| And he will pass to night when all the air | T |
| Is blue with twilight but I shall not see | A |
| I shall have gone forever Hold my hands | U |
| Hold fast that Death may never come between | M |
| Swear by the gods you will not let me go | V |
| Make songs for Death as you would sing to Love | W |
| But you will not assuage him He alone | X |
| Of all the gods will take no gifts from men | D |
| I am afraid afraid | Y |
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| Sappho lean down | Z |
| Last night the fever gave a dream to me | A |
| It takes my life and gives a little dream | A2 |
| I thought I saw him stand the man I love | W |
| Here in my quiet chamber with his eyes | B |
| Fixed on me as I entered while he drew | B2 |
| Silently toward me he who night by night | G |
| Goes by my door without a thought of me | A |
| Neared me and put his hand behind my head | C2 |
| And leaning toward me kissed me on the mouth | Q |
| That was a little dream for Death to give | D2 |
| Too short to take the whole of life for yet | E2 |
| I woke with lips made quiet by a kiss | P |
| The dream is worth the dying Do not smile | F2 |
| So sadly on me with your shining eyes | B |
| You who can set your sorrow to a song | G2 |
| And ease your hurt by singing But to me | A |
| My songs are less than sea sand that the wind | J |
| Drives stinging over me and bears away | H2 |
| I have no care what place the grains may fall | I2 |
| Nor of my songs if Time shall blow them back | J2 |
| As land wind breaks the lines of dying foam | K2 |
| Along the bright wet beaches scattering | E |
| The flakes once more against the laboring sea | A |
| Into oblivion What care have I | L2 |
| To please Apollo since Love hearkens not | M2 |
| Your words will live forever men will say | H2 |
| She was the perfect lover I shall die | L2 |
| I loved too much to live Go Sappho go | V |
| I hate your hands that beat so full of life | N2 |
| Go lest my hatred hurt you I shall die | L2 |
| But you will live to love and love again | D |
| He might have loved some other spring than this | P |
| I should have kept my life I let it go | V |
| He would not love me now tho' Cypris bound | O2 |
| Her girdle round me I am Death's not Love's | P2 |
| Go from me Sappho back to find the sun | C |
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| I am alone alone O Cyprian | C |
Sara Teasdale
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