The Broken Tryst Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEEE FEFE EGEG HIHJ KLKL EEEE EMEM NONO PQLQ| That day a fire was in my blood | A |
| I could have sung joy wrapt me round | B |
| The men I met seemed all so good | C |
| I scarcely knew I trod the ground | B |
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| How easy seemed all toil I laughed | D |
| To think that once I hated it | E |
| The sunlight thrilled like wine I quaffed | E |
| Delight divine and infinite | E |
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| The very day was not too long | F |
| I felt so patient I could wait | E |
| Being certain So the hours in song | F |
| Chimed out the minutes of my fate | E |
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| For she was coming she at last | E |
| I knew I knew that bolts and bars | G |
| Could stay her not my heart throbbed fast | E |
| I was not more certain of the stars | G |
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| The twilight came grew deeper now | H |
| The hour struck minutes passed and still | I |
| The passionate fervour of her vow | H |
| Ran in my heart's ear audible | J |
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| I had no doubt at all I knew | K |
| That she would come and I was then | L |
| Most certain while the minutes flew | K |
| Ah how I scorned all other men | L |
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| Next moment Ah it was was not | E |
| I heard the stillness of the street | E |
| Night came The stars had not forgot | E |
| The moonlight fell about my feet | E |
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| So I rebuked my heart and said | E |
| Be still for she is coming see | M |
| Next moment coming Ah her tread | E |
| I hear her coming it is she | M |
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| And then a woman passed The hour | N |
| Rang heavily along the air | O |
| I had no hope I had no power | N |
| To think for thought was but despair | O |
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| A thing had happened What My brain | P |
| Dared not so much as guess the thing | Q |
| And yet the sun would rise again | L |
| Next morning I stood marvelling | Q |
Arthur Symons
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