Love Is Master Still Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCA DEEDFFD AGGACCASince that it may not be | A |
The thing my soul desires | B |
And that Love's tenderer fires | B |
Are doomed to loss and Time's sterility | A |
Ours be it this one day | C |
Flowers at Love's feet to lay | C |
For Love is master still or be we bond or free | A |
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We may not quite be blest | D |
Time's treasure is too great | E |
And ours too weak a fate | E |
And Joy burns low a sun flame in the West | D |
Night comes the while we stand | F |
Forlornly hand in hand | F |
And then the tears begin the dreams that have no rest | D |
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Yet since it may not be | A |
And Love can not be wise | G |
And in each other's eyes | G |
We still must seek Time's lost felicity | A |
Ours be it this last day | C |
Flowers on Love's grave to lay | C |
For Love is master still or be we bond or free | A |
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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