A Lover's Quarrel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDBBB A EEFFEEE A GGHHGGG I JKLLKKK I MMNNMMM I OOGGOOO I PPQQPPP I LLRRLLL L MMSSMMM L TTUUTTV L GGWWGGG L GGXXYGG G ZA2MMA2A2A2 G MMB2B2MMM G MMB2B2MMM G MMC2C2MMM G D2D2XXD2D2D2 G GGMMGGG G E2E2F2F2E2E2E2 G MMMMMMM G IIG2G2III G H2H2I2I2H2H2H2

IA
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Oh what a dawn of dayB
How the March sun feels like MayB
All is blue againC
After last night's rainD
And the South dries the hawthorn sprayB
Only my Love's awayB
I'd as lief that the blue were greyB
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IIA
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Runnels which rillets swellE
Must be dancing down the dellE
With a foaming headF
On the beryl bedF
Paven smooth as a hermit's cellE
Each with a tale to tellE
Could my Love but attend as wellE
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IIIA
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Dearest three months agoG
When we lived blocked up with snowG
When the wind would edgeH
In and in his wedgeH
In as far as the point could goG
Not to our ingle thoughG
Where we loved each the other soG
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IVI
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Laughs with so little causeJ
We devised games out of strawsK
We would try and traceL
One another's faceL
In the ash as an artist drawsK
Free on each other's flawsK
How we chattered like two church dawsK
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VI
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What's in the 'Times' a scoldM
At the Emperor deep and coldM
He has taken a brideN
To his gruesome sideN
That's as fair as himself is boldM
There they sit ermine stoledM
And she powders her hair with goldM
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VII
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Fancy the Pampas' sheenO
Miles and miles of gold and greenO
Where the sunflowers blowG
In a solid glowG
And to break now and then the screenO
Black neck and eyeballs keenO
Up a wild horse leaps betweenO
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VIII
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Try will our table turnP
Lay your hands there light and yearnP
Till the yearning slipsQ
Thro' the finger tipsQ
In a fire which a few discernP
And a very few feel burnP
And the rest they may live and learnP
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VIIII
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Then we would up and paceL
For a change about the placeL
Each with arm o'er neckR
'Tis our quarter deckR
We are seamen in woeful caseL
Help in the ocean spaceL
Or if no help we'll embraceL
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IXL
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See how she looks now dressedM
In a sledging cap and vestM
'Tis a huge fur cloakS
Like a reindeer's yokeS
Falls the lappet along the breastM
Sleeves for her arms to restM
Or to hang as my Love likes bestM
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XL
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Teach me to flirt a fanT
As the Spanish ladies canT
Or I tint your lipU
With a burnt stick's tipU
And you turn into such a manT
Just the two spots that spanT
Half the bill of the young male swanV
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XIL
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Dearest three months agoG
When the mesmerizer SnowG
With his hand's first sweepW
Put the earth to sleepW
'Twas a time when the heart could showG
All how was earth to knowG
'Neath the mute hand's to and froG
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XIIL
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Dearest three months agoG
When we loved each other soG
Lived and loved the sameX
Till an evening cameX
When a shaft from the devil's bowY
Pierced to our ingle glowG
And the friends were friend and foeG
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XIIIG
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Not from the heart beneathZ
'Twas a bubble born of breathA2
Neither sneer nor vauntM
Nor reproach nor tauntM
See a word how it severethA2
Oh power of life and deathA2
In the tongue as the Preacher saithA2
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XIVG
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Woman and will you castM
For a word quite off at lastM
Me your own your YouB2
Since as truth is trueB2
I was You all the happy pastM
Me do you leave aghastM
With the memories We amassedM
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XVG
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Love if you knew the lightM
That your soul casts in my sightM
How I look to youB2
For the pure and trueB2
And the beauteous and the rightM
Bear with a moment's spiteM
When a mere mote threats the whiteM
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XVIG
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What of a hasty wordM
Is the fleshly heart not stirredM
By a worm's pin prickC2
Where its roots are quickC2
See the eye by a fly's foot blurredM
Ear when a straw is heardM
Scratch the brain's coat of curdM
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XVIIG
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Foul be the world or fairD2
More or less how can I careD2
'Tis the world the sameX
For my praise or blameX
And endurance is easy thereD2
Wrong in the one thing rareD2
Oh it is hard to bearD2
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XVIIIG
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Here's the spring back or closeG
When the almond blossom blowsG
We shall have the wordM
In a minor thirdM
There is none but the cuckoo knowsG
Heaps of the guelder roseG
I must bear with it I supposeG
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XIXG
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Could but November comeE2
Were the noisy birds struck dumbE2
At the warning slashF2
Of his driver's lashF2
I would laugh like the valiant ThumbE2
Facing the castle glumE2
And the giant's fee faw fumE2
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XXG
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Then were the world well strippedM
Of the gear wherein equippedM
We can stand apartM
Heart dispense with heartM
In the sun with the flowers unnippedM
Oh the world's hangings rippedM
We were both in a bare walled cryptM
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XXIG
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Each in the crypt would cryI
But one freezes here and whyI
When a heart as chillG2
At my own would thrillG2
Back to life and its fires out flyI
Heart shall we live or dieI
The rest settle by and byI
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XXIIG
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So she'd efface the scoreH2
And forgive me as beforeH2
It is twelve o'clockI2
I shall hear her knockI2
In the worst of a storm's uproarH2
I shall pull her through the doorH2
I shall have her for evermoreH2

Robert Browning



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