The Secret Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ BKBK LALA MNMN| SHE passes in her beauty bright | A |
| Amongst the mean amongst the gay | B |
| And all are brighter for the sight | A |
| And bless her as she goes her way | B |
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| And now a gleam of pity pours | C |
| And now a spark of spirit flies | D |
| Uncounted from the unlock d stores | C |
| Of her rich lips and precious eyes | D |
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| And all men look and all men smile | E |
| But no man looks on her as I | F |
| They mark her for a little while | E |
| But I will watch her till I die | F |
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| And if I wonder now and then | G |
| Why this so strange a thing should be | H |
| That she be seen by wiser men | G |
| And only duly lov d by me | H |
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| I only wait a little longer | I |
| And watch her radiance in the room | J |
| Here making light a little stronger | I |
| And there obliterating gloom | J |
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| Like one who in a tangled way | B |
| Watches the broken sun fall through | K |
| Turning to gold the faded spray | B |
| And making diamonds of dew | K |
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| Until at last as my heart burns | L |
| She gathers all her scatter d light | A |
| And undivided radiance turns | L |
| Upon me like a sea of light | A |
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| And then I know they see in part | M |
| That which God lets me worship whole | N |
| He gives them glances of her heart | M |
| But me the sunshine of her soul | N |
William Cosmo Monkhouse
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