To E. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAB CCCB DDDD EEED FFFG DDDG HIFD JKJD EEED DDDD| The mountains in fantastic lines | A |
| Sweep blue white to the sky which shines | A |
| Blue as blue gems athwart the pines | A |
| The lake gleams blue | B |
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| We three were here three years gone by | C |
| Our Poet with fine frenzied eye | C |
| You stepped in learned lore and I | C |
| A poet too | B |
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| Our Poet brought us books and flowers | D |
| He read us Faust he talked for hours | D |
| Philosophy sad Schopenhauer's | D |
| Beneath the trees | D |
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| And do you mind that sunny day | E |
| When he as on the sward he lay | E |
| Told of Lassalle who bore away | E |
| The false Louise | D |
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| Thrice favoured bard to him alone | F |
| That green and snug retreat was shown | F |
| Where to the vulgar herd unknown | F |
| Our pens we plied | G |
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| For in those distant days it seems | D |
| We cherished sundry idle dreams | D |
| And with our flowing foolscap reams | D |
| The Fates defied | G |
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| And after when the day was gone | H |
| And the hushed silver night came on | I |
| He showed us where the glow worm shone | F |
| We stooped to see | D |
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| There too by yonder moon we swore | J |
| Platonic friendship o'er and o'er | K |
| No folk we deemed had been before | J |
| So wise and free | D |
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| And do I sigh or smile to day | E |
| Dead love or dead ambition say | E |
| Which mourn we most Not much we weigh | E |
| Platonic friends | D |
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| On you the sun is shining free | D |
| Our Poet sleeps in Italy | D |
| Beneath an alien sod on me | D |
| The cloud descends | D |
Amy Levy
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