Isabel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCB DBDBEEEB FBFBGGGB| When first I stood before you | A |
| Isabel | B |
| I stood there to adore you | A |
| In your spell | B |
| For all that grace composes | C |
| And all that beauty knows is | C |
| Your face above the roses | C |
| Isabel | B |
| - | |
| You knew the charm of flowers | D |
| Isabel | B |
| Which like incarnate hours | D |
| Rose and fell | B |
| At your bosom glowed and gloried | E |
| White and pale and pink and florid | E |
| And you touched them with your forehead | E |
| Isabel | B |
| - | |
| Amid the jest and laughter | F |
| Isabel | B |
| I saw you and thereafter | F |
| Ill or well | B |
| There was nothing else worth seeing | G |
| Worth following or fleeing | G |
| And no reason else for being | G |
| Isabel | B |
John Charles Mcneill
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