Return! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CBCBB CBCBBB DEDBDBB BFBBFBBFBBBB GBBHHBHBBBBBB| Return return all night my lamp is burning | A |
| All night like it my wide eyes watch and burn | B |
| Like it I fade and pale when day returning | A |
| Bears witness that the absent can return | B |
| Return return | B |
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| Like it I lessen with a lengthening sadness | C |
| Like it I burn to waste and waste to burn | B |
| Like it I spend the golden oil of gladness | C |
| To feed the sorrowy signal for return | B |
| Return return | B |
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| Like it like it whene'er the east wind sings | C |
| I bend and shake like it I quake and yearn | B |
| When Hope's late butterflies with whispering wings | C |
| Fly in out of the dark to fall and burn | B |
| Burn in the watchfire of return | B |
| Return return | B |
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| Like it the very flame whereby I pine | D |
| Consumes me to its nature While I mourn | E |
| My soul becomes a better soul than mine | D |
| And from its brightening beacon I discern | B |
| My starry love go forth from me and shine | D |
| Across the seas a path for thy return | B |
| Return return | B |
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| Return return all night I see it burn | B |
| All night it prays like me and lifts a twin | F |
| Of palm egrave d praying hands that meet and yearn | B |
| Yearn to the impleaded skies for thy return | B |
| Day like a golden fetter locks them in | F |
| And wans the light that withers tho' it burn | B |
| As warmly still for thy return | B |
| Still thro' the splendid load uplifts the thin | F |
| Pale paler palest patience that can learn | B |
| Naught but that votive sign for thy return | B |
| That single suppliant sign for thy return | B |
| Return return | B |
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| Return return lest haply love or e'er | G |
| Thou touch the lamp the light have ceased to burn | B |
| And thou who thro' the window didst discern | B |
| The wonted flame shalt reach the topmost stair | H |
| To find no wide eyes watching there | H |
| No wither'd welcome waiting thy return | B |
| A passing ghost a smoke wreath in the air | H |
| The flameless ashes and the soulless urn | B |
| Warm with the famish'd fire that lived to burn | B |
| Burn out its lingering life for thy return | B |
| Its last of lingering life for thy return | B |
| Its last of lingering life to light thy late return | B |
| Return return | B |
Sydney Dobell
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