Excuse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDE FFGG HHII IIJK LLMN OOII FFPP| I too have suffer'd yet I know | A |
| She is not cold though she seems so | A |
| She is not cold she is not light | B |
| But our ignoble souls lack might | B |
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| She smiles and smiles and will not sigh | C |
| While we for hopeless passion die | C |
| Yet she could love those eyes declare | D |
| Were but men nobler than they are | E |
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| Eagerly once her gracious ken | F |
| Was turn'd upon the sons of men | F |
| But light the serious visage grew | G |
| She look'd and smiled and saw them through | G |
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| Our petty souls our strutting wits | H |
| Our labour'd puny passion fits | H |
| Ah may she scorn them still till we | I |
| Scorn them as bitterly as she | I |
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| Yet oh that Fate would let her see | I |
| One of some worthier race than we | I |
| One for whose sake she once might prove | J |
| How deeply she who scorns can love | K |
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| His eyes be like the starry lights | L |
| His voice like sounds of summer nights | L |
| In all his lovely mien let pierce | M |
| The magic of the universe | N |
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| And she to him will reach her hand | O |
| And gazing in his eyes will stand | O |
| And know her friend and weep for glee | I |
| And cry Long long I've look'd for thee | I |
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| Then will she weep with smiles till then | F |
| Coldly she mocks the sons of men | F |
| Till then her lovely eyes maintain | P |
| Their gay unwavering deep disdain | P |
Matthew Arnold
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