Sonnets From The Portuguese I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACBADEDFDGI THOUGHT once how Theocritus had sung | A |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Of the sweet years the dear and wish'd for years | B |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Who each one in a gracious hand appears | B |
To bear a gift for mortals old or young | A |
And as I mused it in his antique tongue | A |
nbsp nbsp nbsp I saw in gradual vision through my tears | C |
nbsp nbsp nbsp The sweet sad years the melancholy years | B |
Those of my own life who by turns had flung | A |
A shadow across me Straightway I was 'ware | D |
nbsp nbsp nbsp So weeping how a mystic Shape did move | E |
Behind me and drew me backward by the hair | D |
nbsp nbsp nbsp And a voice said in mastery while I strove | F |
'Guess now who holds thee ' 'Death ' I said But there | D |
nbsp nbsp nbsp The silver answer rang 'Not Death but Love ' | G |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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