A Parodist's Apology Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHI| If I've dared laugh at you Robert Browning | A |
| 'Tis with eyes that with you have often wept | B |
| You have oftener left me smiling or frowning | A |
| Than any beside one bard except | B |
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| But once you spoke to me storm tongued poet | C |
| A trivial word in an idle hour | D |
| But thrice I looked on your face and the glow it | E |
| Bore from the flame of the inward power | D |
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| But you'd many a friend you never knew of | F |
| Your words lie hid in a hundred hearts | G |
| And thousands of hands that you've grasped but few of | F |
| Would be raised to shield you from slander's darts | G |
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| For you lived in the sight of the land that owned you | H |
| You faced the trial and stood the test | I |
| They have piled you a cairn that would fain have stoned you | H |
| You have spoken your message and earned your rest | I |
James Kenneth Stephen
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