But For The Grace Of God Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE DFDF GHGI JKGK LMLM NONO PQRQ STSU CVCV| There but for the grace of God goes | A |
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| There is a question that I ask | B |
| And ask again | C |
| What hunger was half hidden by the mask | B |
| That he wore then | C |
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| There was a word for me to say | D |
| That I said not | E |
| And in the past there was another day | D |
| That I forgot | E |
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| A dreary cold unwholesome day | D |
| Racked overhead | F |
| As if the world were turning the wrong way | D |
| And the sun dead | F |
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| A day that comes back well enough | G |
| Now he is gone | H |
| What then Has memory no other stuff | G |
| To seize upon | I |
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| Wherever he may wander now | J |
| In his despair | K |
| Would he be more contented in the slough | G |
| If all were there | K |
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| And yet he brought a kind of light | L |
| Into the room | M |
| And when he left a tinge of something bright | L |
| Survived the gloom | M |
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| Why will he not be where he is | N |
| And not with me | O |
| The hours that are my life are mine not his | N |
| Or used to be | O |
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| What numerous imps invisible | P |
| Has he at hand | Q |
| Far flying and forlorn as what they tell | R |
| At his command | Q |
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| What hold of weirdness or of worth | S |
| Can he possess | T |
| That he may speak from anywhere on earth | S |
| His loneliness | U |
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| Shall I be caught and held again | C |
| In the old net | V |
| He brought a sorry sunbeam with him then | C |
| But it beams yet | V |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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