Tact Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EDEDDDDD FGFGHIHI| Observant of the way she told | A |
| So much of what was true | B |
| No vanity could long withhold | A |
| Regard that was her due | B |
| She spared him the familiar guile | C |
| So easily achieved | D |
| That only made a man to smile | C |
| And left him undeceived | D |
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| Aware that all imagining | E |
| Of more than what she meant | D |
| Would urge an end of everything | E |
| He stayed and when he went | D |
| They parted with a merry word | D |
| That was to him as light | D |
| As any that was ever heard | D |
| Upon a starry night | D |
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| She smiled a little knowing well | F |
| That he would not remark | G |
| The ruins of a day that fell | F |
| Around her in the dark | G |
| He saw no ruins anywhere | H |
| Nor fancied there were scars | I |
| On anyone who lingered there | H |
| Alone below the stars | I |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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