A Woman's Shortcomings Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EDEDFDFD GGGGHDHD IEIJKDAD ALALADAD| She has laughed as softly as if she sighed | A |
| She has counted six and over | B |
| Of a purse well filled and a heart well tried | A |
| Oh each a worthy lover | B |
| They quot give her time quot for her soul must slip | C |
| Where the world has set the grooving | D |
| She will lie to none with her fair red lip | C |
| But love seeks truer loving | D |
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| She trembles her fan in a sweetness dumb | E |
| As her thoughts were beyond recalling | D |
| With a glance for one and a glance for some | E |
| From her eyelids rising and falling | D |
| Speaks common words with a blushful air | F |
| Hears bold words unreproving | D |
| But her silence says what she never will swear | F |
| And love seeks better loving | D |
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| Go lady lean to the night guitar | G |
| And drop a smile to the bringer | G |
| Then smile as sweetly when he is far | G |
| At the voice of an in door singer | G |
| Bask tenderly beneath tender eyes | H |
| Glance lightly on their removing | D |
| And join new vows to old perjuries | H |
| But dare not call it loving | D |
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| Unless you can think when the song is done | I |
| No other is soft in the rhythm | E |
| Unless you can feel when left by One | I |
| That all men else go with him | J |
| Unless you can know when unpraised by his breath | K |
| That your beauty itself wants proving | D |
| Unless you can swear quot For life for death quot | A |
| Oh fear to call it loving | D |
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| Unless you can muse in a crowd all day | A |
| On the absent face that fixed you | L |
| Unless you can love as the angels may | A |
| With the breadth of heaven betwixt you | L |
| Unless you can dream that his faith is fast | A |
| Through behoving and unbehoving | D |
| Unless you can die when the dream is past | A |
| Oh never call it loving | D |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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