Her Eyes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GBGB HIHI JKJK LJLJ MNMN ODOD| Up from the street and the crowds that went | A |
| Morning and midnight to and fro | B |
| Still was the room where his days he spent | A |
| And the stars were bleak and the nights were slow | B |
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| Year after year with his dream shut fast | C |
| He suffered and strove till his eyes were dim | D |
| For the love that his brushes had earned at last | C |
| And the whole world rang with the praise of him | D |
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| But he cloaked his triumph and searched instead | E |
| Till his cheeks were sere and his hairs were gray | F |
| There are women enough God knows he said | E |
| There are stars enough when the sun's away | F |
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| Then he went back to the same still room | G |
| That had held his dream in the long ago | B |
| When he buried his days in a nameless tomb | G |
| And the stars were bleak and the nights were slow | B |
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| And a passionate humor seized him there | H |
| Seized him and held him until there grew | I |
| Like life on his canvas glowing and fair | H |
| A perilous face and an angel's too | I |
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| Angel and maiden and all in one | J |
| All but the eyes They were there but yet | K |
| They seemed somehow like a soul half done | J |
| What was the matter Did God forget | K |
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| But he wrought them at last with a skill so sure | L |
| That her eyes were the eyes of a deathless woman | J |
| With a gleam of heaven to make them pure | L |
| And a glimmer of hell to make them human | J |
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| God never forgets And he worships her | M |
| There in that same still room of his | N |
| For his wife and his constant arbiter | M |
| Of the world that was and the world that is | N |
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| And he wonders yet what her love could be | O |
| To punish him after that strife so grim | D |
| But the longer he lives with her eyes to see | O |
| The plainer it all comes back to him | D |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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