Leonora Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEE FFGG| They have made for Leonora this low dwelling in the ground | A |
| And with cedar they have woven the four walls round | A |
| Like a little dryad hiding she'll be wrapped all in green | B |
| Better kept and longer valued than by ways that would have been | C |
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| They will come with many roses in the early afternoon | D |
| They will come with pinks and lilies and with Leonora soon | D |
| And as long as beauty's garments over beauty's limbs are thrown | E |
| There'll be lilies that are liars and the rose will have its own | E |
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| There will be a wondrous quiet in the house that they have made | F |
| And to night will be a darkness in the place where she'll be laid | F |
| But the builders looking forward into time could only see | G |
| Darker nights for Leonora than to night shall ever be | G |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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