Etude Realiste Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BAB ABAB C BDBD DBD BDBD C EFEF FEG EFEF| A Baby's feet like sea shells pink | A |
| Might tempt should heaven see meet | B |
| An angel's lips to kiss we think | A |
| A baby's feet | B |
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| Like rose hued sea flowers toward the heat | B |
| They stretch and spread and wink | A |
| Their ten soft buds that part and meet | B |
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| No flower bells that expand and shrink | A |
| Gleam half so heavenly sweet | B |
| As shine on life's untrodden brink | A |
| A baby's feet | B |
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| II | C |
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| A baby's hands like rosebuds furled | B |
| Whence yet no leaf expands | D |
| Ope if you touch though close upcurled | B |
| A baby's hands | D |
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| Then fast as warriors grip their brands | D |
| When battle's bolt is hurled | B |
| They close clenched hard like tightening bands | D |
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| No rosebuds yet by dawn impearled | B |
| Match even in loveliest lands | D |
| The sweetest flowers in all the world | B |
| A baby's hands | D |
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| III | C |
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| A baby's eyes ere speech begin | E |
| Ere lips learn words or sighs | F |
| Bless all things bright enough to win | E |
| A baby's eyes | F |
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| Love while the sweet thing laughs and lies | F |
| And sleep flows out and in | E |
| Sees perfect in them Paradise | G |
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| Their glance might cast out pain and sin | E |
| Their speech make dumb the wise | F |
| By mute glad godhead felt within | E |
| A baby's eyes | F |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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