Why Do I Love? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCBABA ADEFFEGEA AHHIIHJHA AKKLLKGKA AMNOPQJMA ACCRSCACA| Why do I love | A |
| Is it for men to choose | B |
| The hour of the hushed night when crowned with dews | B |
| From its sea grave the morning star shall wake | C |
| Lo while we drowsed it rose on our heart's ache | C |
| And all our heaven was red with the day's hues | B |
| And glad birds chaunted from the trees above | A |
| So was it with my heart that might not choose | B |
| But woke to love | A |
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| Why do I love | A |
| The aureole of lost days | D |
| Is on thy brow and unforgotten face | E |
| Faith's guiding light the same which of old time | F |
| Sent men on knightly quests to deeds sublime | F |
| And the high prize which was their lady's grace | E |
| Thither I follow careless what shall prove | G |
| So only at thy knees a little space | E |
| I too may love | A |
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| Why do I love | A |
| The paths of life are steep | H |
| And dark the issues and the gulfs how deep | H |
| This wayside shrine invites my knees to kneel | I |
| Thou dearest Saint in witness of my zeal | I |
| Biddest me walk in joy who only weep | H |
| And fare forth comforted who vainly strove | J |
| See how my steps in thy sweet service leap | H |
| See how I love | A |
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| Why do I love | A |
| There is a dream that stirs | K |
| My soul to its last depth of lost desires | K |
| Music of waters in a thirsty land | L |
| A step a touch the lingering of a hand | L |
| Fingers that are the soft Spring's messengers | K |
| And lips that to my kisses part and move | G |
| With passionate words which yet how strange are hers | K |
| Pleading for love | A |
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| Why do I love | A |
| If one had told me this | M |
| When I erewhile in the world's wilderness | N |
| Wandered uncertain or of Heaven or Hell | O |
| How had I laughed as at a time worn tale | P |
| To day behold I too speak prophecies | Q |
| And hang my votive garland in the grove | J |
| And supplicate my god and kneel and kiss | M |
| Her feet for love | A |
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| Why do I love | A |
| Ah love I will not make | C |
| A longer reasoning even for thy sake | C |
| Be it enough that I am pleasure's thrall | R |
| Tell me thy will in song or madrigal | S |
| Or word unspoken Bid me bend or break | C |
| And brave all wraths of Earth or Heaven above | A |
| But not thy wrath Ah bid me not awake | C |
| Bid me still love | A |
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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