A Face Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEDFFGGHHIIJKLL LJ| If one could have that little head of hers | A |
| Painted upon a background of pure gold | B |
| Such as the Tuscan's early art prefers | A |
| No shade encroaching on the matchless mould | B |
| Of those two lips which should be opening soft | C |
| In the pure profile not as when she laughs | D |
| For that spoils all but rather as if aloft | E |
| Yon hyacinth she loves so leaned its staff's | D |
| Burden of honey colored buds to kiss | F |
| And capture 'twixt the lips apart for this | F |
| Then her little neck three fingers might surround | G |
| How it should waver on the pale gold ground | G |
| Up to the fruit shaped perfect chin it lifts | H |
| I know Correggio loves to mass in rifts | H |
| Of heaven his angel faces orb on orb | I |
| Breaking its outline burning shades absorb | I |
| But these are only massed there I should think | J |
| Waiting to see some wonder momently | K |
| Grow out stand full fade slow against the sky | L |
| That's the pale ground you'd see this sweet face by | L |
| All heaven meanwhile condensed into one eye | L |
| Which fears to lose the wonder should it wink | J |
Robert Browning
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