Substitution Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAACBADDDEDD| WHEN some beloved voice that was to you | A |
| Both sound and sweetness faileth suddenly | B |
| And silence against which you dare not cry | C |
| Aches round you like a strong disease and new | A |
| What hope what help what music will undo | A |
| That silence to your sense Not friendship's sigh | C |
| Not reason's subtle count not melody | B |
| Of viols nor of pipes that Faunus blew | A |
| Not songs of poets nor of nightingales | D |
| Whose hearts leap upward through the cypress trees | D |
| To the clear moon nor yet the spheric laws | D |
| Self chanted nor the angels' sweet ' All hails ' | E |
| Met in the smile of God nay none of these | D |
| Speak THOU availing Christ and fill this pause | D |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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