Her Portrait Immortal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDD EEFFGG HIHIJJ KLKLMM NONOPP QQFFEE| Must I believe this beauty wholly gone | A |
| That in her picture here so deathless seems | B |
| And must I henceforth speak of her as one | C |
| Tells of some face of legend or of dreams | B |
| Still here and there remembered scarce believed | D |
| Or held the fancy of a heart bereaved | D |
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| So beautiful she was ah was say I | E |
| Yet doubt her dead I did not see her die | E |
| Only by others borne across the sea | F |
| Came the incredible wild blasphemy | F |
| They called her death as though it could be true | G |
| Of such an immortality as you | G |
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| True of these eyes that from her picture gaze | H |
| Serene star steadfast as the heaven's own eyes | I |
| Of that deep bosom white as hawthorn sprays | H |
| Where my world weary head forever lies | I |
| True of these quiet hands so marble cool | J |
| Still on her lap as lilies on a pool | J |
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| Must I believe her dead that this sweet clay | K |
| That even from her picture breathes perfume | L |
| Was carried on a fiery wind away | K |
| Or foully locked in the worm whispering tomb | L |
| This casket rifled ribald fingers thrust | M |
| 'Mid all her dainty treasure is this dust | M |
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| Once such a dewy marvel of a girl | N |
| Warm as the sun and ivory as the moon | O |
| All gone of her all lost except this curl | N |
| Saved from her head one summer afternoon | O |
| Tied with a little ribbon from her breast | P |
| This only mine and Death's now all the rest | P |
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| Must I believe it true Bid me not go | Q |
| Where on her grave the English violets blow | Q |
| Nay leave me if a dream indeed it be | F |
| Still in my dream that she is somewhere she | F |
| Silent as was her wont It is a lie | E |
| She is not dead I did not see her die | E |
Richard Le Gallienne
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