Absence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF BGBH IFIF| IN THIS fair stranger s eyes of grey | A |
| Thine eyes my love I see | B |
| I shudder for the passing day | A |
| Had borne me far from thee | B |
| - | |
| This is the curse of life that not | C |
| A nobler calmer train | D |
| Of wiser thoughts and feelings blot | C |
| Our passions from our brain | D |
| - | |
| But each day brings its petty dust | E |
| Our soon chok d souls to fill | F |
| And we forget because we must | E |
| And not because we will | F |
| - | |
| I struggle towards the light and ye | B |
| Once long d for storms of love | G |
| If with the light ye cannot be | B |
| I bear that ye remove | H |
| - | |
| I struggle towards the light but oh | I |
| While yet the night is chill | F |
| Upon Time s barren stormy flow | I |
| Stay with me Marguerite still | F |
Matthew Arnold
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