Brothers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDDEEFFFGGHHIIJJ KKLLMMNNMMOOPQQRRMMM MHM| How lovely the elder brother's | A |
| Life all laced in the other's | A |
| L oacute ve laced what once I well | B |
| Witnessed so fortune fell | B |
| When Shrovetide two years gone | C |
| Our boys' plays brought on | D |
| Part was picked for John | D |
| Young J oacute hn then fear then joy | E |
| Ran revel in the elder boy | E |
| Their night was come now all | F |
| Our company thronged the hall | F |
| Henry by the wall | F |
| Beckoned me beside him | G |
| I came where called and eyed him | G |
| By meanwhiles making my play | H |
| Turn most on tender byplay | H |
| For wrung all on love's rack | I |
| My lad and lost in Jack | I |
| Smiled blushed and bit his lip | J |
| Or drove with a diver's dip | J |
| Clutched hands down through clasped knees | K |
| Truth's tokens tricks like these | K |
| Old telltales with what stress | L |
| He hung on the imp's success | L |
| Now the other was br aacute ss b oacute ld | M |
| H eacute had no work to hold | M |
| His heart up at the strain | N |
| Nay roguish ran the vein | N |
| Two tedious acts were past | M |
| Jack's call and cue at last | M |
| When Henry heart forsook | O |
| Dropped eyes and dared not look | O |
| Eh how aacute ll r uacute ng | P |
| Young dog he did give tongue | Q |
| But Harry in his hands he has flung | Q |
| His tear tricked cheeks of flame | R |
| For fond love and for shame | R |
| Ah Nature framed in fault | M |
| There 's comfort then there 's salt | M |
| Nature bad base and blind | M |
| Dearly thou canst be kind | M |
| There dearly th eacute n de aacute rly | H |
| I'll cry thou canst be kind | M |
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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