Two Sonnets Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCDBECB FGHFIH A JKKJJLLJ MNNOMO| I | A |
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| Just as I wonder at the twofold screen | B |
| Of twisted innocence that you would plait | C |
| For eyes that uncourageously await | C |
| The coming of a kingdom that has been | D |
| So do I wonder what God's love can mean | B |
| To you that all so strangely estimate | E |
| The purpose and the consequent estate | C |
| Of one short shuddering step to the Unseen | B |
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| No I have not your backward faith to shrink | F |
| Lone faring from the doorway of God's home | G |
| To find Him in the names of buried men | H |
| Nor your ingenious recreance to think | F |
| We cherish in the life that is to come | I |
| The scattered features of dead friends again | H |
| - | |
| II | A |
| - | |
| Never until our souls are strong enough | J |
| To plunge into the crater of the Scheme | K |
| Triumphant in the flash there to redeem | K |
| Love's handsel and forevermore to slough | J |
| Like cerements at a played out masque the rough | J |
| And reptile skins of us whereon we set | L |
| The stigma of scared years are we to get | L |
| Where atoms and the ages are one stuff | J |
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| Nor ever shall we know the cursed waste | M |
| Of life in the beneficence divine | N |
| Of starlight and of sunlight and soul shine | N |
| That we have squandered in sin's frail distress | O |
| Till we have drunk and trembled at the taste | M |
| The mead of Thought's prophetic endlessness | O |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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