The Clinging Vine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FGFGCHCH IJIJJJJJ KLKLJMJM CNCNOPOP QRQRJSJS OTOTJUJU VWVWXMXM YOYOZUA2U B2C2B2C2OD2OD2 KE2KE2CF2CF2 IG2IG2FH2FH2

Be calm And was I franticA
You'll have me laughing soonB
I'm calm as this AtlanticA
And quiet as the moonB
I may have spoken fasterC
Than once in other daysD
For I've no more a masterC
And now 'Be calm ' he saysE
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Fear not fear no commotionF
I'll be as rocks and sandG
The moon and stars and oceanF
Will envy my commandG
No creature could be stillerC
In any kind of placeH
Than I No I'll not kill herC
Her death is in her faceH
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Be happy while she has itI
For she'll not have it longJ
A year and then you'll pass itI
Preparing a new songJ
And I'm a fool for pratingJ
Of what a year may bringJ
When more like her are waitingJ
For more like you to singJ
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You mock me with denialK
You mean to call me hardL
You see no room for trialK
When all my doors are barredL
You say and you'd say dyingJ
That I dream what I knowM
And sighing and denyingJ
You'd hold my hand and goM
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You scowl and I don't wonderC
I spoke too fast againN
But you'll forgive one blunderC
For you are like most menN
You are or so you've told meO
So many mortal timesP
That heaven ought not to hold meO
Accountable for crimesP
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Be calm Was I unpleasantQ
Then I'll be more discreetR
And grant you for the presentQ
The balm of my defeatR
What she with all her strivingJ
Could not have brought aboutS
You've done Your own contrivingJ
Has put the last light outS
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If she were the whole storyO
If worse were not behindT
I'd creep with you to gloryO
Believing I was blindT
I'd creep and go on seemingJ
To be what I despiseU
You laugh and say I'm dreamingJ
And all your laughs are liesU
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Are women mad A few areV
And if it's true you sayW
If most men are as you areV
We'll all be mad some dayW
Be calm and let me finishX
There's more for you to knowM
I'll talk while you diminishX
And listen while you growM
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There was a man who marriedY
Because he couldn't seeO
And all his days he carriedY
The mark of his degreeO
But you you came clear sightedZ
And found truth in my eyesU
And all my wrongs you've rightedA2
With lies and lies and liesU
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You've killed the last assuranceB2
That once would have me striveC2
To rouse an old enduranceB2
That is no more aliveC2
It makes two people chillyO
To say what we have saidD2
But you you'll not be sillyO
And wrangle for the deadD2
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You don't You never wrangleK
Why scold then or complainE2
More words will only mangleK
What you've already slainE2
Your pride you can't surrenderC
My name for that you fearF2
Since when were men so tenderC
And honor so severeF2
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No more I'll never bear itI
I'm going I'm like iceG2
My burden You would share itI
Forbid the sacrificeG2
Forget so quaint a notionF
And let no more be toldH2
For moon and stars and oceanF
And you and I are coldH2

Edwin Arlington Robinson



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