The Quarrel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDDAEEA FGFGHGH IJKILLJLIMM NONOPPNPQRQR| They faced each other Topaz brown | A |
| And lambent burnt her eyes and shot | B |
| Sharp flame at his of amethyst | C |
| I hate you Go and be forgot | B |
| As death forgets their glitter hissed | C |
| So seemed it in their hatred Ho | D |
| Dared any mortal front her so | D |
| Tempestuous eyebrows knitted down | A |
| Tense nostril mouth no muscle slack | E |
| And black the suffocating black | E |
| The stifling blackness of her frown | A |
| - | |
| Ah but the lifted face of her | F |
| And the twitched lip and tilted head | G |
| Yet he did neither wince nor stir | F |
| Only his hands clenched and instead | G |
| Of words he answered with a stare | H |
| That stammered not in aught it said | G |
| As might his voice if trusted there | H |
| - | |
| And what what spake his steady gaze | I |
| Was there a look that harshly fell | J |
| To scoff her or a syllable | K |
| Of anger or the bitter phrase | I |
| That myrrhs the honey of love's lips | L |
| Or curdles blood as poison drips | L |
| What made their breasts to heave and swell | J |
| As billows under bows of ships | L |
| In broken seas on stormy days | I |
| We may not know nor they indeed | M |
| What mercy found them in their need | M |
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| A sudden sunlight smote the gloom | N |
| And round about them swept a breeze | O |
| With faint breaths as of clover bloom | N |
| A bird was heard through drone of bees | O |
| Then far and clear and eerily | P |
| A child's voice from an orchard tree | P |
| Then laughter sweet as the perfume | N |
| Of lilacs could the hearing see | P |
| And he O Love he fed thy name | Q |
| On bruis d kisses while her dim | R |
| Deep eyes with all their inner flame | Q |
| Like drowning gems were turned on him | R |
James Whitcomb Riley
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