A Light Woman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC A DEFE A GHGH I JKJK I LMLM I NONO I PLPL I IQIQ Q RSRS Q TUTU Q QQQQ Q QVQV Q WXWX I QYQY| I | A |
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| So far as our story approaches the end | B |
| Which do you pity the most of us three | C |
| My friend or the mistress of my friend | B |
| With her wanton eyes or me | C |
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| II | A |
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| My friend was already too good to lose | D |
| And seemed in the way of improvement yet | E |
| When she crossed his path with her hunting noose | F |
| And over him drew her net | E |
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| III | A |
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| When I saw him tangled in her toils | G |
| A shame said I if she adds just him | H |
| To her nine and ninety other spoils | G |
| The hundredth for a whim | H |
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| IV | I |
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| And before my friend be wholly hers | J |
| How easy to prove to him I said | K |
| An eagle's the game her pride prefers | J |
| Though she snaps at a wren instead | K |
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| V | I |
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| So I gave her eyes my own eyes to take | L |
| My hand sought hers as in earnest need | M |
| And round she turned for my noble sake | L |
| And gave me herself indeed | M |
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| VI | I |
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| The eagle am I with my fame in the world | N |
| The wren is he with his maiden face | O |
| You look away and your lip is curled | N |
| Patience a moment's space | O |
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| VII | I |
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| For see my friend goes shaling and white | P |
| He eyes me as the basilisk | L |
| I have turned it appears his day to night | P |
| Eclipsing his sun's disk | L |
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| VIII | I |
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| And I did it he thinks as a very thief | I |
| Though I love her that he comprehends | Q |
| One should master one's passions love in chief | I |
| And be loyal to one's friends | Q |
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| IX | Q |
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| And she she lies in my hand as tame | R |
| As a pear late basking over a wall | S |
| Just a touch to try and off it came | R |
| 'Tis mine can I let it fall | S |
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| X | Q |
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| With no mind to eat it that's the worst | T |
| Were it thrown in the road would the case assist | U |
| 'Twas quenching a dozen blue flies' thirst | T |
| When I gave its stalk a twist | U |
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| XI | Q |
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| And I what I seem to my friend you see | Q |
| What I soon shall seem to his love you guess | Q |
| What I seem to myself do you ask of me | Q |
| No hero I confess | Q |
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| XII | Q |
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| 'Tis an awkward thing to play with souls | Q |
| And matter enough to save one's own | V |
| Yet think of my friend and the burning coals | Q |
| He played with for bits of stone | V |
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| XIII | Q |
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| One likes to show the truth for the truth | W |
| That the woman was light is very true | X |
| But suppose she says Never mind that youth | W |
| What wrong have I done to you | X |
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| XIV | I |
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| Well any how here the story stays | Q |
| So far at least as I understand | Y |
| And Robert Browning you writer of plays | Q |
| Here's a subject made to your hand | Y |
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