Lux Perdita Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAB CDDCD EFFGF| Thine were the weak slight hands | A |
| That might have taken this strong soul and bent | B |
| Its stubborn substance to thy soft intent | B |
| And bound it unresisting with such bands | A |
| As not the arm of envious heaven had rent | B |
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| Thine were the calming eyes | C |
| That round my pinnace could have stilled the sea | D |
| And drawn thy voyager home and bid him be | D |
| Pure with their pureness with their wisdom wise | C |
| Merged in their light and greatly lost in thee | D |
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| But thou thou passed'st on | E |
| With whiteness clothed of dedicated days | F |
| Cold like a star and me in alien ways | F |
| Thou leftest following life's chance lure where shone | G |
| The wandering gleam that beckons and betrays | F |
William Watson
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