A Portrait Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDCDCD| When friends grown faithless or the fickle throng | A |
| Withdrawing from my life the love they lent | B |
| Breed in my heart disdainful discontent | B |
| And sadden sunshine with a sense of wrong | A |
| Then I forgetting to be wise and strong | A |
| And on my own endearment too intent | B |
| Unto myself make musical lament | B |
| And lullaby my pain with plaintive song | A |
| But when I gaze upon this face august | C |
| Her gift who seated on earth's loftiest throne | D |
| For others' weal holds half the world in trust | C |
| Pondering on cares of Empire all alone | D |
| I then rebuked remember to be just | C |
| Think of her griefs and quite forget my own | D |
Alfred Austin
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