A Girl's Sin - In His Eyes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCBBAADDAAAADDEF FFAAGGHHIIBBAADDDDJJ AAA| Can I forget her cruelty | A |
| Who brown miracle gave you me | A |
| Or with unmoisted eyes think on | B |
| The proud surrender overgone | B |
| Lowlihead in haughty dress | C |
| Of the tender tyranness | C |
| And ere thou for my joy was given | B |
| How rough the road to that blest heaven | B |
| With what pangs I fore expiated | A |
| Thy cold outlawry from her head | A |
| How was I trampled and brought low | D |
| Because her virgin neck was so | D |
| How thralled beneath the jealous state | A |
| She stood at point to abdicate | A |
| How sacrificed before to me | A |
| She sacrificed her pride and thee | A |
| How did she struggling to abase | D |
| Herself to do me strange sweet grace | D |
| Enforce unwitting me to share | E |
| Her throes and abjectness with her | F |
| Thence heightening that hour when her lover | F |
| Her grace with trembling should discover | F |
| And in adoring trouble be | A |
| Humbled at her humility | A |
| And with what pitilessness was I | G |
| After slain to pacify | G |
| The uneasy manes of her shame | H |
| Her haunting blushes Mine the blame | H |
| What fair injustice did I rue | I |
| For what I did not tempt her to | I |
| Nor aught the judging maid might win | B |
| Me to assoil from HER sweet sin | B |
| But nought were extreme punishment | A |
| For that beyond divine content | A |
| When my with thee first giddied eyes | D |
| Stooped ere their due on Paradise | D |
| O hour of consternating bliss | D |
| When I heavened me in thy kiss | D |
| Thy softness daring overmuch | J |
| Profan ed with my licensed touch | J |
| Worshipped with tears on happy knee | A |
| Her doubt her trust her shyness free | A |
| Her timorous audacity | A |
Francis Thompson
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