In Absence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDEFGFGHH A IJIJKFKHHLHLMM A NONOJLJLFHFHPP Q RSR HJHJTQTQUU V

IA
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The storm that snapped our fate's one ship in twainB
Hath blown my half o' the wreck from thine apartC
O Love O Love across the gray waved mainB
To thee ward strain my eyes my arms my heartC
I ask my God if e'en in His sweet placeD
Where by one waving of a wistful wingE
My soul could straightway tremble face to faceD
With thee with thee across the stellar ringE
Yea where thine absence I could ne'er bewailF
Longer than lasts that little blank of blissG
When lips draw back with recent pressure paleF
To round and redden for another kissG
Would not my lonesome heart still sigh for theeH
What time the drear kiss intervals must beH
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IIA
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So do the mottled formulas of SenseI
Glide snakewise through our dreams of AftertimeJ
So errors breed in reeds and grasses denseI
That bank our singing rivulets of rhymeJ
By Sense rule Space and Time but in God's LandK
Their intervals are not save such as lieF
Betwixt successive tones in concords blandK
Whose loving distance makes the harmonyH
Ah there shall never come 'twixt me and theeH
Gross dissonances of the mile the yearL
But in the multichords of ecstasyH
Our souls shall mingle yet be featured clearL
And absence wrought to intervals divineM
Shall part yet link thy nature's tone and mineM
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IIIA
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Look down the shining peaks of all my daysN
Base hidden in the valleys of deep nightO
So shalt thou see the heights and depths of praiseN
My love would render unto love's delightO
For I would make each day an Alp sublimeJ
Of passionate snow white hot yet icy clearL
One crystal of the true loves of all timeJ
Spiring the world's prismatic atmosphereL
And I would make each night an awful valeF
Deep as thy soul obscure as modestyH
With every star in heaven trembling paleF
O'er sweet profounds where only Love can seeH
Oh runs not thus the lesson thou hast taughtP
When life's all love 'tis life aught else 'tis naughtP
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IVQ
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Let no man say 'He at his lady's feetR
Lays worship that to Heaven alone belongsS
Yea swings the incense that for God is meetR
In flippant censers of light lover's songs '-
Who says it knows not God nor love nor theeH
For love is large as is yon heavenly domeJ
In love's great blue each passion is full freeH
To fly his favorite flight and build his homeJ
Did e'er a lark with skyward pointing beakT
Stab by mischance a level flying doveQ
Wife love flies level his dear mate to seekT
God love darts straight into the skies aboveQ
Crossing the windage of each other's wingsU
But speeds them both upon their journeyingsU
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BaltimoreV

Sidney Lanier



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