Late Summer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCAA DDAE AFAG AAAB HHAI JIKA GLGA AMHH NHGO LALA LAGL APLK LQRS LPGT GAAK AALG SAAS| Alcaics | A |
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| Confused he found her lavishing feminine | B |
| Gold upon clay and found her inscrutable | C |
| And yet she smiled Why then should horrors | A |
| Be as they were without end her playthings | A |
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| And why were dead years hungrily telling her | D |
| Lies of the dead who told them again to her | D |
| If now she knew there might be kindness | A |
| Clamoring yet where a faith lay stifled | E |
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| A little faith in him and the ruinous | A |
| Past would be for time to annihilate | F |
| And wash out like a tide that washes | A |
| Out of the sand what a child has drawn there | G |
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| God what a shining handful of happiness | A |
| Made out of days and out of eternities | A |
| Were now the pulsing end of patience | A |
| Could he but have what a ghost had stolen | B |
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| What was a man before him or ten of them | H |
| While he was here alive who could answer them | H |
| And in their teeth fling confirmations | A |
| Harder than agates against an egg shell | I |
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| But now the man was dead and would come again | J |
| Never though she might honor ineffably | I |
| The flimsy wraith of him she conjured | K |
| Out of a dream with his wand of absence | A |
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| And if the truth were now but a mummery | G |
| Meriting pride's implacable irony | L |
| So much the worse for pride Moreover | G |
| Save her or fail there was conscience always | A |
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| Meanwhile a few misgivings of innocence | A |
| Imploring to be sheltered and credited | M |
| Were not amiss when she revealed them | H |
| Whether she struggled or not he saw them | H |
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| Also he saw that while she was hearing him | N |
| Her eyes had more and more of the past in them | H |
| And while he told what cautious honor | G |
| Told him was all he had best be sure of | O |
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| He wondered once or twice inadvertently | L |
| Where shifting winds were driving his argosies | A |
| Long anchored and as long unladen | L |
| Over the foam for the golden chances | A |
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| If men were not for killing so carelessly | L |
| And women were for wiser endurances | A |
| He said we might have yet a world here | G |
| Fitter for Truth to be seen abroad in | L |
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| If Truth were not so strange in her nakedness | A |
| And we were less forbidden to look at it | P |
| We might not have to look He stared then | L |
| Down at the sand where the tide threw forward | K |
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| Its cold unconquered lines that unceasingly | L |
| Foamed against hope and fell He was calm enough | Q |
| Although he knew he might be silenced | R |
| Out of all calm and the night was coming | S |
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| I climb for you the peak of his infamy | L |
| That you may choose your fall if you cling to it | P |
| No more for me unless you say more | G |
| All you have left of a dream defends you | T |
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| The truth may be as evil an augury | G |
| As it was needful now for the two of us | A |
| We cannot have the dead between us | A |
| Tell me to go and I go She pondered | K |
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| What you believe is right for the two of us | A |
| Makes it as right that you are not one of us | A |
| If this be needful truth you tell me | L |
| Spare me and let me have lies hereafter | G |
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| She gazed away where shadows were covering | S |
| The whole cold ocean's healing indifference | A |
| No ship was coming When the darkness | A |
| Fell she was there and alone still gazing | S |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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