A Love Secret Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHI AJC KLD MNO OPM QAKA ORI DSQS KTB DUM KVM ABCB| Love has its secrets joy has its revealings | A |
| How shall I speak of that which love has hid | B |
| If my beloved shall return to greet me | C |
| Deeds shall be done for her none ever did | B |
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| My beloved loved me How shall I reveal it | D |
| We were alone that morning in the street | E |
| She looked down at the ground and blushed and trembled | F |
| She stopped me with her eyes when these did meet | E |
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| What wouldst thou sweet one What wouldst thou with sorrow | G |
| Thou the new morning star with me the night | H |
| What are those flowers thou holdest to thy bosom | I |
| What are the thoughts thou hidest from my sight '' | - |
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| Thine are these flowers '' she said these foolish roses | A |
| And thine the thoughts if thus it be thy will | J |
| I hold them close for fear that thou shouldst mock me | C |
| I hold them to my heart for fear of ill '' | - |
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| Nay what of ill 'Tis only age is evil | K |
| Only forgetfulness and grief and pain | L |
| What dost thou know of grief that thou shouldst fear it | D |
| Mine is the grief who cannot love again '' | - |
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| She raised her eyes she looked at me in wonder | M |
| The ache is here '' she said by night and day | N |
| I cannot teach my heart to bear its burden | O |
| I cannot turn my silence from its way '' | - |
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| Speak to me child I am thy wise physician | O |
| A man acquainted with all grief can teach | P |
| There is no sorrow but has joy for sister | M |
| No silence but finds counterpart in speech '' | - |
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| My beloved laughed She saw through my dissembling | Q |
| She held to me her hand that I might kiss | A |
| The inside of her hand 'Twas like a petal | K |
| Of her own roses but more dear than this | A |
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| I felt its pulses like a bird in prison | O |
| Sweet child '' I said what wouldst thou I should prove | R |
| I cannot make thee wiser than thy wisdom | I |
| Who knowest all things since thou knowest love '' | - |
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| How shall I tell it How shall I reveal it | D |
| I led her by the hand as thus I said | S |
| Back from the street to where it stood my dwelling | Q |
| And closed the door on where it stood my bed | S |
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| Her laughter stopped Nay use not thou unkindly | K |
| Thine is the hand to deal or spare the blame | T |
| I dare not be to thee thus uninvited | B |
| Thou dost not know me hast not learned my name '' | - |
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| How shall I tell it How shall I reveal it | D |
| Love in that instant found its latest birth | U |
| Soul of my soul '' I cried thy name is Pleasure | M |
| The sweetest thing to love on this sad Earth '' | - |
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| I held her in my arms I pressed her fastly | K |
| Ah if thou lovedst me indeed '' she cried | V |
| I love thee and I love thee '' was my answer | M |
| My sister my beloved one my bride '' | - |
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| Love has its secrets Joy has its revealings | A |
| I speak of this which love in vain has hid | B |
| If my beloved shall return to greet me | C |
| Deeds shall be done for her none ever did | B |
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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