Lilah, Alice, Hypatia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBAACCDDEEFF AAGGHH| To Alice and Hypatia Bradlaugh | A |
| - | |
| Who was Lilah I am sure | B |
| She was young and sweet and pure | B |
| With the forehead wise men love | A |
| Here a lucid dawn above | A |
| Broad curved brows and twilight there | C |
| Under the deep dusk of hair | C |
| And her eyes I cannot say | D |
| Whether brown or blue or grey | D |
| I have seen them brown and blue | E |
| And a soft green grey the hue | E |
| Shakespeare loved and he was wise | F |
| 'Grey as glass' were Silvia's eyes | F |
| - | |
| So to Lilah's name above | A |
| I will add two names I love | A |
| Linking with the bracket curls | G |
| Three sweet names of three sweet girls | G |
| Sunday of Saint Valentine | H |
| Eighteen hundred sixty nine | H |
James Thomson
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