The Poor Relation Poem Rhyme Scheme

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No longer torn by what she knows	A
And sees within the eyes of others	B
Her doubts are when the daylight goes	A
Her fears are for the few she bothers	B
She tells them it is wholly wrong	C
Of her to stay alive so long	C
And when she smiles her forehead shows	A
A crinkle that had been her mother's	B
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Beneath her beauty blanched with pain	D
And wistful yet for being cheated	E
A child would seem to ask again	F
A question many times repeated	G
But no rebellion has betrayed	H
Her wonder at what she has paid	H
For memories that have no stain	D
For triumph born to be defeated	E
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To those who come for what she was	I
The few left who know where to find her	J
She clings for they are all she has	K
And she may smile when they remind her	J
As heretofore of what they know	L
Of roses that are still to blow	L
By ways where not so much as grass	M
Remains of what she sees behind her	J
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They stay a while and having done	N
What penance or the past requires	B
They go and leave her there alone	O
To count her chimneys and her spires	P
Her lip shakes when they go away	Q
And yet she would not have them stay	Q
She knows as well as anyone	N
That Pity having played soon tires	B
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But one friend always reappears	R
A good ghost not to be forsaken	N
Whereat she laughs and has no fears	R
Of what a ghost may reawaken	N
But welcomes while she wears and mends	R
The poor relation's odds and ends	R
Her truant from a tomb of years	R
Her power of youth so early taken	N
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Poor laugh more slender than her song	C
It seems and there are none to hear it	S
With even the stopped ears of the strong	C
For breaking heart or broken spirit	T
The friends who clamored for her place	R
And would have scratched her for her face	R
Have lost her laughter for so long	C
That none would care enough to fear it	S
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None live who need fear anything	U
From her whose losses are their pleasure	J
The plover with a wounded wing	U
Stays not the flight that others measure	J
So there she waits and while she lives	R
And death forgets and faith forgives	R
Her memories go foraging	U
For bits of childhood song they treasure	J
	-
And like a giant harp that hums	R
On always and is always blending	U
The coming of what never comes	R
With what has past and had an ending	U
The City trembles throbs and pounds	R
Outside and through a thousand sounds	R
The small intolerable drums	R
Of Time are like slow drops descending	U
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Bereft enough to shame a sage	V
And given little to long sighing	U
With no illusion to assuage	V
The lonely changelessness of dying	U
Unsought unthought of and unheard	W
She sings and watches like a bird	W
Safe in a comfortable cage	V
From which there will be no more flying	U

Edwin Arlington Robinson

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