A Study Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH FIII JKCK LMNM OPCP QRIR STQT QUVU DWXW YPQP ZA2FA2 VEB2E C2D2FD2 C2E2VE2| If your thoughts were as clear as your eyes | A |
| And the whole of your heart were true | B |
| You were fitter by far for winning | C |
| But then that would not be you | B |
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| If your pulse beat time to love | D |
| As fast as you think and plan | E |
| You could kindle a lasting passion | F |
| In the breast of the strongest man | E |
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| If you felt as much as you thought | G |
| And dreamed what you seem to dream | H |
| A world of elysian beauty | I |
| Your ruined heart would redeem | H |
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| If you thought in the light of the sun | F |
| Or the blood in your veins flowed free | I |
| If you gave your kisses but gladly | I |
| We two could better agree | I |
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| If you were strong where I counted | J |
| And weak where yourself were at stake | K |
| You would have my strength for your giving | C |
| You would gain and not lose for my sake | K |
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| If your heart overruled your head | L |
| Or your head were lord of your heart | M |
| Or the two were lovingly balanced | N |
| I think we never should part | M |
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| If you came to me spite of yourself | O |
| And staid not away through design | P |
| These days of loving and living | C |
| Were sweet as Olympian wine | P |
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| If you could weep with another | Q |
| And tears for yourself controlled | R |
| You could waken and hold to a pity | I |
| You waken but do not hold | R |
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| If your lips were as fain to speak | S |
| As your face is fashioned to hide | T |
| You would know that to lay up treasure | Q |
| A woman's heart must confide | T |
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| If your bosom were something richer | Q |
| Or your hands more fragile and thin | U |
| You would call what the world calls evil | V |
| Or sin and be glad of the sin | U |
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| If your soul were aflame with love | D |
| Or your head were devoted to truth | W |
| You never would toss on your pillow | X |
| Bewildered 'twixt rapture and ruth | W |
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| If you were the you of my dreams | Y |
| And the you of my dreams were mine | P |
| These days half sweet and half bitter | Q |
| Would taste like Olympian wine | P |
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| Oh subtle and mystic Egyptians | Z |
| Who chiseled the Sphinx in the East | A2 |
| With head and the breasts of a woman | F |
| And body and claws of a beast | A2 |
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| And gave her a marvellous riddle | V |
| That the eyeless should read as he ran | E |
| What crawls and runs and is baffled | B2 |
| By woman the sphinx but a man | E |
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| Many look in her face and are conquered | C2 |
| Where one all her heart has explored | D2 |
| A thousand have made her their sovereign | F |
| But one is her sovereign and lord | D2 |
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| For him she leaps from her standard | C2 |
| And fawns at his feet in the sand | E2 |
| Who sees that himself is her riddle | V |
| And she but the work of his hand | E2 |
Edgar Lee Masters
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