The Grief Of Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJEK LBMN OPQR ESTS| Love I am sick for thee sick with an absolute grief | A |
| Sick with the thought of thy eyes and lips and bosom | B |
| All the beauty I saw I see to my hurt revealed | C |
| All that I felt I feel to day for my pain and sorrow | D |
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| Love I would fain forget thee hide thee in deeper night | E |
| Shut thee where no thought is in the grave with tears | F |
| Love I would turn my face to the wall and if needs be die | G |
| Death less cruel were than thy eyes which have blinded me | H |
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| Since thou art gone from me glory is gone from my life | I |
| Dumb are the woods and streams and dumb the voice of my soul | J |
| Dead are the flowers we loved blackened and sere with blight | E |
| Earth is frost bound under my foot where our footsteps trod | K |
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| Give me back for my sorrow the days of senseless peace | L |
| Days when I thought not of thee or thought in wisdom | B |
| Let me see thee once more as thou to my folly wert | M |
| A woman senseless as sounding brass or as tinkling cymbal | N |
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| Why didst thou show me thy heart which I thought not of | O |
| Why didst thou bare me thy soul who to me wert soulless | P |
| Why didst thou kiss my mouth when my mouth did mock | Q |
| Why didst thou speak to my lips of love ere my lips had spoken | R |
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| Love thou hast made me thine thine and in my despite | E |
| Laying thy hand on my heart in the soft Spring weather | S |
| Love thou hast bought my soul at a price the price of thine | T |
| Never again to mock at love ah never never | S |
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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