Love After Sorrow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CCCC DEFE GHGH IJKL MMMM MNMO MPMP| Behold this hour I love as in the glory of morn | A |
| I too the accurs d one whom griefs pursue | B |
| Like phantoms through a land of deaths forlorn | A |
| Have felt my heart leap up with courage new | B |
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| Behold I love The tragedy of hate's derision | C |
| Has like a storm cloud vanished and is done | C |
| High in its path my hope has burst its prison | C |
| And stands transfigured a resplendent sun | C |
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| Where are the ghosts of sorrow that beset my road | D |
| The foes that mocked the fools that fled from me | E |
| Peace be their portion all who sought my blood | F |
| I care not for fear's bondage who am free | E |
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| O days of youth renewed Love's voice a singing bird's | G |
| Thrills me to tears more sweet than laughters are | H |
| His silence godlike speaks to me in words | G |
| Dearer than minstrelsy in lands afar | H |
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| These halls e'erwhile of pride my sorrow's palaces | I |
| Are decked for joy and with high pomps and shows | J |
| Proclaim his lordship of all life that is | K |
| In passionate echoes of remembered vows | L |
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| The gardens are grown thick once more with scent of flowers | M |
| Moss roses by the wall sweet lavenders | M |
| Larkspurs red lilies Who shall tell what dowers | M |
| Of musks and mallows golden shall be hers | M |
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| Hers Whose Oh if a tongue should tell of dreams unwise | M |
| And love might blazon love to ears abroad | N |
| How would I speak But let this word suffice | M |
| That to my lips one name leaps like a sword | O |
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| And that I live once more and love all sentient things | M |
| The spirit of the Earth and the Sun's fire | P |
| And the night's silence and hushed wanderings | M |
| And her who is the soul of my desire | P |
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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