A Wall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FAFA AAAA GHGH IJIJ| O the old wall here How I could pass | A |
| Life in a long midsummer day | B |
| My feet confined to a plot of grass | A |
| My eyes from a wall not once away | B |
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| And lush and lithe do the creepers clothe | C |
| Yon wall I watch with a wealth of green | D |
| Its bald red bricks draped nothing loath | E |
| In lappets of tangle they laugh between | D |
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| Now what is it makes pulsate the robe | F |
| Why tremble the sprays What life o'erbrims | A |
| The body the house no eye can probe | F |
| Divined as beneath a robe the limbs | A |
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| And there again But my heart may guess | A |
| Who tripped behind and she sang perhaps | A |
| So the old wall throbbed and its life's excess | A |
| Died out and away in the leafy wraps | A |
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| Wall upon wall are between us life | G |
| And song should away from heart to heart | H |
| I prison bird with a ruddy strife | G |
| At breast and a lip whence storm notes start | H |
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| Hold on hope hard in the subtle thing | I |
| That's spirit tho' cloistered fast soar free | J |
| Account as wood brick stone this ring | I |
| Of the rueful neighbours and forth to thee | J |
Robert Browning
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