The Terrace At Berne Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FEFE GEGE HIHJ KEKE DLDL DMDM DNDN DODO EPDQ RSRT UEUE| Ten years and to my waking eye | A |
| Once more the roofs of Berne appear | B |
| The rocky banks the terrace high | A |
| The stream and do I linger here | C |
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| The clouds are on the Oberland | D |
| The Jungfrau snows look faint and far | E |
| But bright are those green fields at hand | D |
| And through those fields comes down the Aar | E |
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| And from the blue twin lakes it comes | F |
| Flows by the town the church yard fair | E |
| And 'neath the garden walk it hums | F |
| The house and is my Marguerite there | E |
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| Ah shall I see thee while a flush | G |
| Of startled pleasure floods thy brow | E |
| Quick through the oleanders brush | G |
| And clap thy hands and cry 'Tis thou | E |
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| Or hast thou long since wander'd back | H |
| Daughter of France to France thy home | I |
| And flitted down the flowery track | H |
| Where feet like thine too lightly come | J |
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| Doth riotous laughter now replace | K |
| Thy smile and rouge with stony glare | E |
| Thy cheek's soft hue and fluttering lace | K |
| The kerchief that enwound thy hair | E |
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| Or is it over art thou dead | D |
| Dead and no warning shiver ran | L |
| Across my heart to say thy thread | D |
| Of life was cut and closed thy span | L |
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| Could from earth's ways that figure slight | D |
| Be lost and I not feel 'twas so | M |
| Of that fresh voice the gay delight | D |
| Fail from earth's air and I not know | M |
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| Or shall I find thee still but changed | D |
| But not the Marguerite of thy prime | N |
| With all thy being re arranged | D |
| Pass'd through the crucible of time | N |
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| With spirit vanish'd beauty waned | D |
| And hardly yet a glance a tone | O |
| A gesture anything retain'd | D |
| Of all that was my Marguerite's own | O |
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| I will not know for wherefore try | E |
| To things by mortal course that live | P |
| A shadowy durability | D |
| For which they were not meant to give | Q |
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| Like driftwood spars which meet and pass | R |
| Upon the boundless ocean plain | S |
| So on the sea of life alas | R |
| Man nears man meets and leaves again | T |
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| I knew it when my life was young | U |
| I feel it still now youth is o'er | E |
| The mists are on the mountains hung | U |
| And Marguerite I shall see no more | E |
Matthew Arnold
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