A Face In A Book Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDCDE FGFGG HIHII| In an old book I found her face | A |
| Writ by a dead man long ago | B |
| I found and then I lost the place | A |
| So nothing but her face I know | B |
| And her soft name writ fair below | B |
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| Even if she lived I cannot learn | C |
| Or but a dead man's dream she were | D |
| Page after yellow page I turn | C |
| But cannot come again to her | D |
| Although I know she must be there | E |
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| On other books of other men | F |
| Far in the night year long I pore | G |
| Hoping to find her face again | F |
| Too fair a face to see no more | G |
| And 'twas so soft a name she bore | G |
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| Sometimes I think the book was Youth | H |
| And the dead man that wrote it I | I |
| The face was Beauty the name Truth | H |
| And thus with an unseeing eye | I |
| I pass the long sought image by | I |
Richard Le Gallienne
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