Lines To R. L. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNDOPQRP PSTUVPWPPPXPP| That which we are and shall be is made up | A |
| Of what we have been On the autumn leaf | B |
| The crimson stains bear witness of its spring | C |
| And on its perfect nodes the ocean shell | D |
| Notches the slow strange changes of its growth | E |
| Ourselves are our own records if we looked | F |
| Rightly into that blotted crimson page | G |
| Within our bosoms then there were no need | H |
| To chronicle our stories for the heart | I |
| Hath like the earth its strata and contains | J |
| Its past within its present Well for us | K |
| And our most cherished secrets that within | L |
| The round of being few there are who read | M |
| Beneath the surface Else our very forms | N |
| The merest gesture of our hands might tell | D |
| Much we would hide forever Know you not | O |
| Those eyes in whose dark heaven I have gazed | P |
| More curiously than on my favorite stars | Q |
| Are deeper for such griefs as they have seen | R |
| And brighter for the fancies they have shrined | P |
| And sweeter for the loves which they have talked | P |
| Oh that I had the power to read their smiles | S |
| Or sound the depth of all their glorious gloom | T |
| So should I learn your history from its birth | U |
| Through all its glad and grave experiences | V |
| Better than if your journal in my hand | P |
| Written as only women write with all | W |
| A woman's shades and shapes of feeling traced | P |
| As with the fine touch of a needle's point | P |
| I followed you from that bright hour when first | P |
| I saw you in the garden 'mid the flowers | X |
| To that wherein a letter from your hand | P |
| Made me all rich with the dear name of friend | P |
Henry Timrod
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