On The Portrait Of Two Beautiful Young People Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBD EFFF GHGH FIFI JKJK LFLF MNMN OPOP QRQR| A Brother and Sister | A |
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| O I admire and sorrow The heart's eye grieves | B |
| Discovering you dark tramplers tyrant years | C |
| A juice rides rich through bluebells in vine leaves | B |
| And beauty's dearest veriest vein is tears | D |
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| Happy the father mother of these Too fast | E |
| Not that but thus far all with frailty blest | F |
| In one fair fall but for time's aftercast | F |
| Creatures all heft hope hazard interest | F |
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| And are they thus The fine the fingering beams | G |
| Their young delightful hour do feature down | H |
| That fleeted else like day dissolv egrave d dreams | G |
| Or ringlet race on burling Barrow brown | H |
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| She leans on him with such contentment fond | F |
| As well the sister sits would well the wife | I |
| His looks the soul's own letters see beyond | F |
| Gaze on and fall directly forth on life | I |
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| But ah bright forelock cluster that you are | J |
| Of favoured make and mind and health and youth | K |
| Where lies your landmark seamark or soul's star | J |
| There's none but truth can stead you Christ is truth | K |
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| There 's none but good can b eacute good both for you | L |
| And what sways with you maybe this sweet maid | F |
| None good but God a warning wav egrave d to | L |
| One once that was found wanting when Good weighed | F |
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| Man lives that list that leaning in the will | M |
| No wisdom can forecast by gauge or guess | N |
| The selfless self of self most strange most still | M |
| Fast furled and all foredrawn to No or Yes | N |
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| Your feast of that most in you earnest eye | O |
| May but call on your banes to more carouse | P |
| Worst will the best What worm was here we cry | O |
| To have havoc pocked so see the hung heavenward boughs | P |
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| Enough corruption was the world's first woe | Q |
| What need I strain my heart beyond my ken | R |
| O but I bear my burning witness though | Q |
| Against the wild and wanton work of men | R |
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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