Portrait Of A Woman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBBC DBEEEBBBFGGBFF BBBBB HBCEEIIJJCCBKKBLB LBBMNMBBOOPBP PBBLL| The pathos in your face is like a peace | A |
| It is like resignation or a grace | B |
| Which smiles at the surcease | B |
| Of hope But there is in your face | B |
| The shadow of pain and there is a trace | B |
| Of memory of pain | C |
| - | |
| I look at you again and again | D |
| And hide my looks lest your quick eye perceives | B |
| My search for your despair | E |
| I look at your pale hands I look at your hair | E |
| And I watch you use your hands I watch the flare | E |
| Of thought in your eyes like light that interweaves | B |
| A flutter of color running under leaves | B |
| Such anguished dreams in your eyes | B |
| And I listen to you speak | F |
| Words like crystals breaking with a tinkle | G |
| Or a star's twinkle | G |
| Sometimes as we talk you rise | B |
| And leave the room and then I rub a streak | F |
| Of a tear from my cheek | F |
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| You tell me such magical things | B |
| Of pictures books romance | B |
| And of your life in France | B |
| In the varied music of exquisite words | B |
| And in a voice that sings | B |
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| All things are memory now with you | H |
| For poverty girds | B |
| Your hopes and only your dreams remain | C |
| And sometimes here and there | E |
| I see as you turn your head a whitened hair | E |
| Even when you are smiling most | I |
| And a light comes in your eyes like a passing ghost | I |
| And a color runs through your cheeks as fresh | J |
| As burns in a girl's flesh | J |
| Then I can shut my eyes and feel the pain | C |
| That has become a part of you though I feign | C |
| Laughter myself One sees another's bruise | B |
| And shakes his thought out of it shuddering | K |
| So I turn and clamp my will lest I bring | K |
| Your sorrow into my flesh who cannot choose | B |
| But hear your words and laughter | L |
| And watch your hands and eyes | B |
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| Then as I think you over after | L |
| I have gone from you and your face | B |
| Comes to me with its grace | B |
| Of memory of unfound love | M |
| You seem to me the image of all women | N |
| Who dream and keep under smiles the grief thereof | M |
| Or sew or sit by windows or read books | B |
| To hide their Secret's looks | B |
| And after a time go out of life and leave | O |
| No uttered words but in their silence grieve | O |
| For Life and for the things no tongue can tell | P |
| Why Life hurts so and why Love haunts and hurts | B |
| Poor men and women in this demi hell | P |
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| Perhaps your pathos means that it is well | P |
| Death in his time the aspiring torch inverts | B |
| And all tired flesh and haunted eyes and hands | B |
| Moving in pain d whiteness are put under | L |
| The soothing earth to brighten April's wonder | L |
Edgar Lee Masters
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