Who Is The Maid? St. Jerome's Love. (air.--beethoven.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIKBLBL| Who is the Maid my spirit seeks | A |
| Thro' cold reproof and slander's blight | B |
| Has she Love's roses on her cheeks | A |
| Is hers an eye of this world's light | B |
| No wan and sunk with midnight prayer | C |
| Are the pale looks of her I love | D |
| Or if at times a light be there | C |
| Its beam is kindled from above | D |
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| I chose not her my heart's elect | E |
| From those who seek their Maker's shrine | F |
| In gems and garlands proudly decked | E |
| As if themselves were things divine | F |
| No Heaven but faintly warms the breast | G |
| That beats beneath a broidered veil | H |
| And she who comes in glittering vest | G |
| To mourn her frailty still is frail | H |
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| Not so the faded form I prize | I |
| And love because its bloom is gone | J |
| The glory in those sainted eyes | I |
| Is all the grace her brow puts on | K |
| And ne'er was Beauty's dawn so bright | B |
| So touching as that form's decay | L |
| Which like the altar's trembling light | B |
| In holy lustre wastes away | L |
Thomas Moore
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