Shadows Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHI JKJK| They seem'd to those who saw them meet | A |
| The casual friends of every day | B |
| Her smile was undisturb'd and sweet | A |
| His courtesy was free and gay | B |
| - | |
| But yet if one the other's name | C |
| In some unguarded moment heard | D |
| The heart you thought so calm and tame | C |
| Would struggle like a captured bird | D |
| - | |
| And letters of mere formal phrase | E |
| Were blister'd with repeated tears | F |
| And this was not the work of days | E |
| But had gone on for years and years | G |
| - | |
| Alas that love was not too strong | H |
| For maiden shame and manly pride | I |
| Alas that they delay'd so long | H |
| The goal of mutual bliss beside | I |
| - | |
| Yet what no chance could then reveal | J |
| And neither would be first to own | K |
| Let fate and courage now conceal | J |
| When truth could bring remorse alone | K |
Lord Houghton, Richard Monckton Milnes
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