Eros Turannos Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCB DBEBDDDB CBCBCCCB CFCFDDDF CECEGGHE IFIFEEEF| She fears him and will always ask | A |
| What fated her to choose him | B |
| She meets in his engaging mask | A |
| All reasons to refuse him | B |
| But what she meets and what she fears | C |
| Are less than are the downward years | C |
| Drawn slowly to the foamless weirs | C |
| Of age were she to lose him | B |
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| Between a blurred sagacity | D |
| That once had power to sound him | B |
| And Love that will not let him be | E |
| The Judas that she found him | B |
| Her pride assuages her almost | D |
| As if it were alone the cost | D |
| He sees that he will not be lost | D |
| And waits and looks around him | B |
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| A sense of ocean and old trees | C |
| Envelops and allures him | B |
| Tradition touching all he sees | C |
| Beguiles and reassures him | B |
| And all her doubts of what he says | C |
| Are dimmed of what she knows of days | C |
| Till even prejudice delays | C |
| And fades and she secures him | B |
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| The falling leaf inaugurates | C |
| The reign of her confusion | F |
| The pounding wave reverberates | C |
| The dirge of her illusion | F |
| And home where passion lived and died | D |
| Becomes a place where she can hide | D |
| While all the town and harbor side | D |
| Vibrate with her seclusion | F |
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| We tell you tapping on our brows | C |
| The story as it should be | E |
| As if the story of a house | C |
| Were told or ever could be | E |
| We'll have no kindly veil between | G |
| Her visions and those we have seen | G |
| As if we guessed what hers have been | H |
| Or what they are or would be | E |
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| Meanwhile we do no harm for they | I |
| That with a god have striven | F |
| Not hearing much of what we say | I |
| Take what the god has given | F |
| Though like waves breaking it may be | E |
| Or like a changed familiar tree | E |
| Or like a stairway to the sea | E |
| Where down the blind are driven | F |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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