For Bessie, Seated By Me In The Garden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFFEGEHIGJIKKDDA EDEAB CLCLMCLNCNOPLPQQRCLS NRNIDLDCICPLNTPTUV UVWXCCYZUNYUUUUCCCTo the heart to the heart the white petals | A |
Quietly fall | B |
Memory is a little wind and magical | C |
The dreaming hours | D |
As a breath they fall as a sigh | E |
Green garden hours too langorous to waken | F |
White leaves of blossomy tree wind shaken | F |
As a breath a sigh | E |
As the slow white drift | G |
Of a butterfly | E |
Flower wings falling wings of branches | H |
One after one at wind's droop dipping | I |
Then with the lift | G |
Of the air's soft breath in sudden avalanches | J |
Slipping | I |
Quietly quietly the June wind flings | K |
White wings | K |
White petals past the footpath flowers | D |
Adown my dreaming hours | D |
At the heart at the heart the butterfly settles | A |
As a breath a sigh | E |
Fall the petals of hours of the white leafed flowers | D |
Fall the petalled wings of the butterfly | E |
To my heart to my heart the white petals | A |
Quietly fall | B |
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To the years other years old and wistful | C |
Drifts my dream | L |
Petal patined the dream white mistful | C |
As the dew sweet haunt of the dim whitebeam | L |
Because of memory a little wind | M |
It is the gossamer float of the butterfly | C |
This drift of dream | L |
From the sweet of to day to the sweet | N |
Of days long drifted by | C |
It is the drift of the butterfly it is the fleet | N |
Drift of petals which my noon has thinned | O |
It is the ebbing out of my life of the petals of days | P |
To the years other years drifts my dream | L |
Through the haze | P |
Of summers long ago | Q |
Love's entrancements flow | Q |
A blue green pageant of earth | R |
A green blue pageant of sky | C |
As a stream | L |
Flooding back with lovely delta to my heart | S |
Lo the petalled leafage is finer under the feet | N |
The coarse soil with a rainbow's worth | R |
Of delicate colours lies enamelled | N |
Translucently glowing shining | I |
Each balmy breath of the hours | D |
From eastern gleam to westward gloam | L |
Is meaning full as the falling flowers | D |
It is a crystal syllable | C |
For love's defining | I |
It is love alone can spell | C |
Yea Love remains after this drift of days | P |
Love is here Love is not dumb | L |
The touch of a silken hand comradely untrammelled | N |
Is in the sunlight a bright glance | T |
On every ripple of yonder waterways | P |
A whisper in the dance | T |
Of green shadows | U |
Nor shall the sunlight be shut out even from the dark | V |
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Beyond the garden heavy oaks are buoyant on the meadows | U |
Their rugged bark | V |
No longer rough | W |
But chastened and refined in the glowing eyes of Love | X |
Around us the petals fulfil | C |
Their measure and fall precious the petals are still | C |
For Love they once were gathered they are gathered for Love again | Y |
Whose glance is on the water | Z |
Whose whisper is in the green shadows | U |
In the same comrade hand whose touch is in the sunlight | N |
They are lying again | Y |
Here Love is Love only of all things outstays | U |
The drift of petals the drift of days | U |
Petals of hours | U |
Of white leafed flowers | U |
Petalled wings of the butterfly | C |
Drifting quietly drifting by | C |
As a breath a sigh | C |
Thomas Moult
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