Souffle D'une Rose. (Translation) . Poem by Michael Walker

Here Hughes discusses what love is objectively, not any particular love of his own. He compares love to dew at dawn, star-light at dawn, a flower's sweet scent, all of which last only a short time, then are gone. Like them, love is beautiful and pleasant and sweet, but it does not last for long. Hughes concludes: 'Love is no more/ Than the breath of a rose'.
The 4 quatrains have the rhyme pattern: aabb/cdcd/efff/dddd.-some are only eye-rhymes, weak rhymes.
A well-set-out lyric that makes a statement about love. But with many couples, love lasts for a lifetime: they get married and stay together for life, 'til death do us part'. Therefore, Hughes's poem is not the last word about love.