Impromptu Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACCDED FGFHFBBIII BJBJBKKJJLLDD| Tell me your race your name | A |
| O Lady limned as dead yet as when living fair | B |
| That within this faded frame | A |
| An unfading beauty wear | B |
| Were you ever known to fame | A |
| Or more wisely chose to be | C |
| Lost in love's obscurity | C |
| We may question gaze and guess | D |
| You will never answer yes '' | E |
| For your sweet lips are closed by Death's relentlessness | D |
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| Yes you were chill before | F |
| Some thoughtful hand to us your loveliness bequeathed | G |
| You already then no more | F |
| Moved or spoke or felt or breathed | H |
| But an eternal silence wore | F |
| Dank and limp your ample hair | B |
| And your eyelids kept the stare | B |
| Of a face that cannot speak | I |
| And where lived the rose's streak | I |
| There only lingered then the lily in your cheek | I |
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| Was it your own strange prayer | B |
| That you in death should be in living garb arrayed | J |
| And your aspect seem as fair | B |
| Fanciful and undecayed | J |
| As when life and love were there | B |
| No it was no idle whim | K |
| Death was in love with you and you in love with Him | K |
| And when you with tender dread | J |
| All to Him surrender d | J |
| He took care you should retain | L |
| All of life except its pain | L |
| And with unabated charms | D |
| Lie fast asleep in your unsleeping lover's arms | D |
Alfred Austin
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