In Absence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDEFGFGHH A IJIJKFKHHLHLMM A NONOJLJLFHFHPP Q RSR HJHJTQTQUU V| I | A |
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| The storm that snapped our fate's one ship in twain | B |
| Hath blown my half o' the wreck from thine apart | C |
| O Love O Love across the gray waved main | B |
| To thee ward strain my eyes my arms my heart | C |
| I ask my God if e'en in His sweet place | D |
| Where by one waving of a wistful wing | E |
| My soul could straightway tremble face to face | D |
| With thee with thee across the stellar ring | E |
| Yea where thine absence I could ne'er bewail | F |
| Longer than lasts that little blank of bliss | G |
| When lips draw back with recent pressure pale | F |
| To round and redden for another kiss | G |
| Would not my lonesome heart still sigh for thee | H |
| What time the drear kiss intervals must be | H |
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| II | A |
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| So do the mottled formulas of Sense | I |
| Glide snakewise through our dreams of Aftertime | J |
| So errors breed in reeds and grasses dense | I |
| That bank our singing rivulets of rhyme | J |
| By Sense rule Space and Time but in God's Land | K |
| Their intervals are not save such as lie | F |
| Betwixt successive tones in concords bland | K |
| Whose loving distance makes the harmony | H |
| Ah there shall never come 'twixt me and thee | H |
| Gross dissonances of the mile the year | L |
| But in the multichords of ecstasy | H |
| Our souls shall mingle yet be featured clear | L |
| And absence wrought to intervals divine | M |
| Shall part yet link thy nature's tone and mine | M |
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| III | A |
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| Look down the shining peaks of all my days | N |
| Base hidden in the valleys of deep night | O |
| So shalt thou see the heights and depths of praise | N |
| My love would render unto love's delight | O |
| For I would make each day an Alp sublime | J |
| Of passionate snow white hot yet icy clear | L |
| One crystal of the true loves of all time | J |
| Spiring the world's prismatic atmosphere | L |
| And I would make each night an awful vale | F |
| Deep as thy soul obscure as modesty | H |
| With every star in heaven trembling pale | F |
| O'er sweet profounds where only Love can see | H |
| Oh runs not thus the lesson thou hast taught | P |
| When life's all love 'tis life aught else 'tis naught | P |
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| IV | Q |
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| Let no man say 'He at his lady's feet | R |
| Lays worship that to Heaven alone belongs | S |
| Yea swings the incense that for God is meet | R |
| In flippant censers of light lover's songs ' | - |
| Who says it knows not God nor love nor thee | H |
| For love is large as is yon heavenly dome | J |
| In love's great blue each passion is full free | H |
| To fly his favorite flight and build his home | J |
| Did e'er a lark with skyward pointing beak | T |
| Stab by mischance a level flying dove | Q |
| Wife love flies level his dear mate to seek | T |
| God love darts straight into the skies above | Q |
| Crossing the windage of each other's wings | U |
| But speeds them both upon their journeyings | U |
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| Baltimore | V |
Sidney Lanier
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