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