As A World Would Have It Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE FGHI BBJK LAMN FBOP QAAR STUF FKVV WXYZ A2RKB2 C2D2EA E2AF2A AA2QQ ADAC G2H2IA I2ABA C2D2FJ2 NA2KN K2J2L2M2| ALCESTIS | A |
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| Shall I never make him look at me again | B |
| I look at him I look my life at him | C |
| I tell him all I know the way to tell | D |
| But there he stays the same | E |
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| Shall I never make him speak one word to me | F |
| Shall I never make him say enough to show | G |
| My heart if he be glad Be glad ah God | H |
| Why did they bring me back | I |
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| I wonder if I go to him again | B |
| If I take him by those two cold hands again | B |
| Shall I get one look of him at last or feel | J |
| One sign or anything | K |
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| Or will he still sit there in the same way | L |
| Without an answer for me from his lips | A |
| Or from his eyes or even with a touch | M |
| Of his hand on my hand | N |
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| Will you look down this once look down at me | F |
| Speak once and if you never speak again | B |
| Tell me enough tell me enough to make | O |
| Me know that you are glad | P |
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| You are my King and once my King would speak | Q |
| You were Admetus once you loved me once | A |
| Life was a dream of heaven for us once | A |
| And has the dream gone by | R |
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| Do I cling to shadows when I call you Life | S |
| Do you love me still or are the shadows all | T |
| Or is it I that love you in the grave | U |
| And you that mourn for me | F |
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| If it be that then do not mourn for me | F |
| Be glad that I have loved you and be King | K |
| But if it be not that if it be true | V |
| Tell me if it be true | V |
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| Then with a choking answer the King spoke | W |
| But never touched his hand on hers or fixed | X |
| His eyes on hers or on the face of her | Y |
| Yes it is true he said | Z |
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| You are alive and you are with me now | A2 |
| And you are reaching up to me that I | R |
| That I may take you I that am a King | K |
| I that was once a man | B2 |
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| So then she knew She might have known before | C2 |
| Truly she thought she must have known it long | D2 |
| Before she must have known it when she came | E |
| From that great sleep of hers | A |
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| She knew the truth but not yet all of it | E2 |
| He loved her but he would not let his eyes | A |
| Prove that he loved her and he would not hold | F2 |
| His wife there in his arms | A |
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| So like a slave she waited at his knees | A |
| And waited She was not unhappy now | A2 |
| She quivered but she knew that he would speak | Q |
| Again and he did speak | Q |
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| And while she felt the tremor of his words | A |
| He told her all there was for him to tell | D |
| And then he turned his face to meet her face | A |
| That she might look at him | C |
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| She looked and all her trust was in that look | G2 |
| And all her faith was in it and her love | H2 |
| And when his answer to that look came back | I |
| It flashed back through his tears | A |
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| So then she put her arms around his neck | I2 |
| And kissed him on his forehead and his lips | A |
| And there she clung fast in his arms again | B |
| Triumphant with closed eyes | A |
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| At last half whispering she spoke once more | C2 |
| Why was it that you suffered for so long | D2 |
| Why could you not believe me trust in me | F |
| Was I so strange as that | J2 |
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| We suffer when we do not understand | N |
| And you have suffered you that love me now | A2 |
| Because you are a man There is one thing | K |
| No man can understand | N |
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| I would have given everything gone down | K2 |
| To Tartarus to silence Was it that | J2 |
| I would have died I would have let you live | L2 |
| And was it very strange | M2 |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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