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 frantic | A |
| You'll have me laughing soon | B |
| I'm calm as this Atlantic | A |
| And quiet as the moon | B |
| I may have spoken faster | C |
| Than once in other days | D |
| For I've no more a master | C |
| And now 'Be calm ' he says | E |
| - | |
| Fear not fear no commotion | F |
| I'll be as rocks and sand | G |
| The moon and stars and ocean | F |
| Will envy my command | G |
| No creature could be stiller | C |
| In any kind of place | H |
| Than I No I'll not kill her | C |
| Her death is in her face | H |
| - | |
| Be happy while she has it | I |
| For she'll not have it long | J |
| A year and then you'll pass it | I |
| Preparing a new song | J |
| And I'm a fool for prating | J |
| Of what a year may bring | J |
| When more like her are waiting | J |
| For more like you to sing | J |
| - | |
| You mock me with denial | K |
| You mean to call me hard | L |
| You see no room for trial | K |
| When all my doors are barred | L |
| You say and you'd say dying | J |
| That I dream what I know | M |
| And sighing and denying | J |
| You'd hold my hand and go | M |
| - | |
| You scowl and I don't wonder | C |
| I spoke too fast again | N |
| But you'll forgive one blunder | C |
| For you are like most men | N |
| You are or so you've told me | O |
| So many mortal times | P |
| That heaven ought not to hold me | O |
| Accountable for crimes | P |
| - | |
| Be calm Was I unpleasant | Q |
| Then I'll be more discreet | R |
| And grant you for the present | Q |
| The balm of my defeat | R |
| What she with all her striving | J |
| Could not have brought about | S |
| You've done Your own contriving | J |
| Has put the last light out | S |
| - | |
| If she were the whole story | O |
| If worse were not behind | T |
| I'd creep with you to glory | O |
| Believing I was blind | T |
| I'd creep and go on seeming | J |
| To be what I despise | U |
| You laugh and say I'm dreaming | J |
| And all your laughs are lies | U |
| - | |
| Are women mad A few are | V |
| And if it's true you say | W |
| If most men are as you are | V |
| We'll all be mad some day | W |
| Be calm and let me finish | X |
| There's more for you to know | M |
| I'll talk while you diminish | X |
| And listen while you grow | M |
| - | |
| There was a man who married | Y |
| Because he couldn't see | O |
| And all his days he carried | Y |
| The mark of his degree | O |
| But you you came clear sighted | Z |
| And found truth in my eyes | U |
| And all my wrongs you've righted | A2 |
| With lies and lies and lies | U |
| - | |
| You've killed the last assurance | B2 |
| That once would have me strive | C2 |
| To rouse an old endurance | B2 |
| That is no more alive | C2 |
| It makes two people chilly | O |
| To say what we have said | D2 |
| But you you'll not be silly | O |
| And wrangle for the dead | D2 |
| - | |
| You don't You never wrangle | K |
| Why scold then or complain | E2 |
| More words will only mangle | K |
| What you've already slain | E2 |
| Your pride you can't surrender | C |
| My name for that you fear | F2 |
| Since when were men so tender | C |
| And honor so severe | F2 |
| - | |
| No more I'll never bear it | I |
| I'm going I'm like ice | G2 |
| My burden You would share it | I |
| Forbid the sacrifice | G2 |
| Forget so quaint a notion | F |
| And let no more be told | H2 |
| For moon and stars and ocean | F |
| And you and I are cold | H2 |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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