White Heliotrope

Arthur Symons 1865 (Milford Haven) – 1945



The feverish room and that white bed,
The tumbled skirts upon a chair,
The novel flung half-open where
Hat, hair-pins, puffs, and paints, are spread;
 
The mirror that has sucked your face
Into its secret deep of deeps,
And there mysteriously keeps
Forgotten memories of grace;
 
And you, half-dressed and half awake,
Your slant eyes strangely watching me,
And I, who watch you drowsily,
With eyes that, having slept not, ache;
 
This (need one dread? nay, dare one hope?)
Will rise, a ghost of memory, if
Ever again my handkerchief
Is scented with White Heliotrope.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABBA CCXC DXXD EFFE
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 556
Words 98
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4

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