To Robert Batty, M.d., On His Giving Me A Lock Of Milton's Hair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACBBC DDEDEE| It lies before me there and my own breath | A |
| Stirs its thin outer threads as though beside | B |
| The living head I stood in honoured pride | B |
| Talking of lovely things that conquer death | A |
| Perhaps he pressed it once or underneath | C |
| Ran his fine fingers when he leant blank eyed | B |
| And saw in fancy Adam and his bride | B |
| With their heaped locks or his own Delphic wreath | C |
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| There seems a love in hair though it be dead | D |
| It is the gentlest yet the strongest thread | D |
| Of our frail plant a blossom from the tree | E |
| Surviving the proud trunk as if it said | D |
| Patience and gentleness in power In me | E |
| Behold affectionate eternity | E |
James Henry Leigh Hunt
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