The Beggar's Valentine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK ABEB FKMK NOPO MBQB QRSR QTUT QLVL WXYX FZA2Z LB2C2B2| Kiss me and comfort my heart | A |
| Maiden honest and fine | B |
| I am the pilgrim boy | C |
| Lame but hunting the shrine | B |
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| Fleeing away from the sweets | D |
| Seeking the dust and rain | E |
| Sworn to the staff and road | F |
| Scorning pleasure and pain | E |
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| Nevertheless my mouth | G |
| Would rest like a bird an hour | H |
| And find in your curls a nest | I |
| And find in your breast a bower | H |
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| Nevertheless my eyes | J |
| Would lose themselves in your own | K |
| Rivers that seek the sea | L |
| Angels before the throne | K |
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| Kiss me and comfort my heart | A |
| For love can never be mine | B |
| Passion hunger and pain | E |
| These are the only wine | B |
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| Of the pilgrim bound to the road | F |
| He would rob no man of his own | K |
| Your heart is another's I know | M |
| Your honor is his alone | K |
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| The feasts of a long drawn love | N |
| The feasts of a wedded life | O |
| The harvests of patient years | P |
| And hearthstone and children and wife | O |
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| These are your lords I know | M |
| These can never be mine | B |
| This is the price I pay | Q |
| For the foolish search for the shrine | B |
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| This is the price I pay | Q |
| For the joy of my midnight prayers | R |
| Kneeling beneath the moon | S |
| With hills for my altar stairs | R |
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| This is the price I pay | Q |
| For the throb of the mystic wings | T |
| When the dove of God comes down | U |
| And beats round my heart and sings | T |
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| This is the price I pay | Q |
| For the light I shall some day see | L |
| At the ends of the infinite earth | V |
| When truth shall come to me | L |
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| And what if my body die | W |
| Before I meet the truth | X |
| The road is dear more dear | Y |
| Than love or life or youth | X |
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| The road it is the road | F |
| Mystical endless kind | Z |
| Mother of visions vast | A2 |
| Mother of soul and mind | Z |
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| Mother of all of me | L |
| But the blood that cries for a mate | B2 |
| That cries for a farewell kiss | C2 |
| From the child of God at the gate | B2 |
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