The Clinging Vine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FGFGCHCH IJIJJJJJ KLKLJMJM CNCNOPOP QRQRJSJS OTOTJUJU VWVWXMXM YOYOZUA2U B2C2B2C2OD2OD2 KE2KE2CF2CF2 IG2IG2FH2FH2Be 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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