Couplets In Praise Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC AA DD EE FF AA GG HH GG II JK EE EE| Poet of love I sing here my whole soul to you | A |
| Ah might I all deeds dare love would I prove to you | A |
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| Make I at least your praise chaplet of sunny verse | B |
| Each dear delight of your told to the universe | B |
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| Let me your sweetnesses O child enumerate | C |
| All the proud wealth of you Love shall remunerate | C |
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| Glory to God '' I sigh each time I gaze at you | A |
| Eyes that have wept all night thrill in amaze at you | A |
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| Night in your dark hair sleeps caught in the net of it | D |
| Emblem how dear of dreams pure as the jet of it | D |
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| Valiant joy crowns your brow stainless its ivory | E |
| Incense your sweet lips breathe rose red their livery | E |
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| Earth has no part in you Yet do your eyes to night | F |
| Vanquish all Earth for me wise in their wise delight | F |
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| Evening and morning still watch your feet shod with dew | A |
| Answering praise and prayer fearless your God with you | A |
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| Dare to delight our souls steeped in love's tenderness | G |
| Earn us a wage of joy saved from the wilderness | G |
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| Lo how my heart leaps up new life inheriting | H |
| Armed for the fight am I all your praise meriting | H |
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| Idly if I have lived now am I glorious | G |
| Daring all deeds for you yours and victorious | G |
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| Empires shall bend and break kingdoms shall crumble down | I |
| Wise men shall bow the knee wise ones look humble down | I |
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| You are the cause of it Only your name it is | J |
| Nerves me to fight the fight stern with life's vanities | K |
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| Die Ay to die for you foremost in rivalry | E |
| Heroes to dig my grave that were true chivalry | E |
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| All lovers there should sing all who had wit any | E |
| Mourn me and weep with you Here ends my litany | E |
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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