Nathaniel Parker Willis

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A Portrait Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABB CC D EEFF GGHH IIJJ KKLL

She was not very beautiful if it be beauty's testA
To match a classic model when perfectly at restA
And she did not look bewitchingly if witchery it beB
To have a forehead and a lip transparent as the seaB
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The fashion of her gracefulness was not a follow'd ruleC
And her effervescent sprightliness was never learnt at schoolC
And her words were all peculiar like the fairy's who 'spoke pearls '-
And her tone was ever sweetest midst the cadences of girlsD
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Said I she was not beautiful Her eyes upon your sightE
Broke with the lambent purity of planetary lightE
And an intellectual beauty like a light within a vaseF
Touched every line with glory of her animated faceF
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Her mind with sweets was laden like a morning breath in JuneG
And her thoughts awoke in harmony like dreamings of a tuneG
And you heard her words like voices that o'er the waters creepH
Or like a serenader's lute that mingles with your sleepH
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She had an earnest intellect a perfect thirst of mindI
And a heart by elevated thoughts and poetry refin'dI
And she saw a subtle tint or shade with every careless lookJ
And the hidden links of nature were familiar as a bookJ
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She's made of those rare elements that now and then appearK
As if remov'd by accident unto a lesser sphereK
Forever reaching up and on to life's sublimer thingsL
As if they had been used to track the universe with wingsL

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