Absence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDEF GAGA HIJI KAK| When my love was away | A |
| Full three days were not sped | B |
| I caught my fancy astray | A |
| Thinking if she were dead | B |
| - | |
| And I alone alone | C |
| It seem'd in my misery | D |
| In all the world was none | E |
| Ever so lone as I | F |
| - | |
| I wept but it did not shame | G |
| Nor comfort my heart away | A |
| I rode as I might and came | G |
| To my love at close of day | A |
| - | |
| The sight of her still'd my fears | H |
| My fairest hearted love | I |
| And yet in her eyes were tears | J |
| Which when I question'd of | I |
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| 'O now thou art come ' she cried | K |
| ''Tis fled but I thought to day | A |
| I never could here abide | K |
| If thou wert longer away ' | - |
Robert Bridges
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