O Beauty, Passing Beauty! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFGEFG| O beauty passing beauty Sweetest sweet | A |
| How can thou let me waste my youth in sighs | B |
| I only ask to sit beside thy feet | A |
| Thou knowest I dare not look into thine eyes | B |
| Might I but kiss thy hand I dare not fold | C |
| My arms about thee scarcely dare to speak | D |
| And nothing seems to me so wild and bold | C |
| As with one kiss to touch thy blessed cheek | D |
| Methinks if I should kiss thee no control | E |
| Within the thrilling brain could keep afloat | F |
| The subtle spirit Even while I spoke | G |
| The bare word kiss hath made my inner soul | E |
| To tremble like a lute string ere the note | F |
| Hath melted in the silence that it broke | G |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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