A Man's Requirements Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC A DEFE A GGGC HCHC IJKL G G MCMC G G G N N G N N NONOI | A |
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Love me Sweet with all thou art | B |
Feeling thinking seeing | C |
Love me in the lightest part | B |
Love me in full being | C |
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II | A |
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Love me with thine open youth | D |
In its frank surrender | E |
With the vowing of thy mouth | F |
With its silence tender | E |
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III | A |
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Love me with thine azure eyes | G |
Made for earnest grantings | G |
Taking colour from the skies | G |
Can Heaven's truth be wanting | C |
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IV | - |
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Love me with their lids that fall | H |
Snow like at first meeting | C |
Love me with thine heart that all | H |
Neighbours then see beating | C |
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V | - |
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Love me with thine hand stretched out | I |
Freely open minded | J |
Love me with thy loitering foot | K |
Hearing one behind it | L |
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VI | - |
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Love me with thy voice that turns | G |
Sudden faint above me | - |
Love me with thy blush that burns | G |
When I murmur 'Love me ' | - |
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VII | - |
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Love me with thy thinking soul | M |
Break it to love sighing | C |
Love me with thy thoughts that roll | M |
On through living dying | C |
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VIII | - |
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Love me in thy gorgeous airs | G |
When the world has crowned thee | - |
Love me kneeling at thy prayers | G |
With the angels round thee | - |
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IX | G |
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Love me pure as muses do | N |
Up the woodlands shady | - |
Love me gaily fast and true | N |
As a winsome lady | - |
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X | G |
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Through all hopes that keep us brave | - |
Farther off or nigher | N |
Love me for the house and grave | - |
And for something higher | N |
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XI | - |
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Thus if thou wilt prove me Dear | N |
Woman's love no fable | O |
I will love thee half a year | N |
As a man is able | O |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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