Partnership Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCB DDEEE FFGGG CCHHH IIJJJ KLFFF MMNNN OOPPP FFQQQ| Yes you have it I can see | A |
| Beautiful Dear look at me | A |
| Look and let my shame confess | B |
| Triumph after weariness | C |
| Beautiful Ah yes | B |
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| Lift it where the beams are bright | D |
| Hold it where the western light | D |
| Shining in above my bed | E |
| Throws a glory on your head | E |
| Now it is all said | E |
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| All there was for me to say | F |
| From the first until to day | F |
| Long denied and long deferred | G |
| Now I say it in one word | G |
| Now and you have heard | G |
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| Life would have its way with us | C |
| And I've called it glorious | C |
| For I know the glory now | H |
| And I read it on your brow | H |
| You have shown me how | H |
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| I can feel your cheeks all wet | I |
| But your eyes will not forget | I |
| In the frown you cannot hide | J |
| I can read where faith and pride | J |
| Are not satisfied | J |
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| But the word was two should live | K |
| Two should suffer and forgive | L |
| By the steep and weary way | F |
| For the glory of the clay | F |
| Two should have their day | F |
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| We have toiled and we have wept | M |
| For the gift the gods have kept | M |
| Clashing and unreconciled | N |
| When we might as well have smiled | N |
| We have played the child | N |
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| But the clashing is all past | O |
| And the gift is yours at last | O |
| Lift it hold it high again | P |
| Did I doubt you now and then | P |
| Well we are not men | P |
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| Never mind we know the way | F |
| And I do not need to stay | F |
| Let us have it well confessed | Q |
| You to triumph I to rest | Q |
| That will be the best | Q |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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