Bad Dreams Iv Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBB DCDCC BEBEE FGFHH IHIHI IBIBB JKJKJ BLBLL MNMNN| It happened thus my slab though new | A |
| Was getting weather stained beside | B |
| Herbage balm peppermint o'ergrew | C |
| Letter and letter till you tried | B |
| Somewhat the Name was scarce descried | B |
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| That strong stern man my lover came | D |
| Was he my lover Call him pray | C |
| My life's cold critic bent on blame | D |
| Of all poor I could do or say | C |
| To make me worth his love one day | C |
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| One far day when by diligent | B |
| And dutiful amending faults | E |
| Foibles all weaknesses which went | B |
| To challenge and excuse assaults | E |
| Of culture wronged by taste that halts | E |
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| Discrepancies should mar no plan | F |
| Symmetric of the qualities | G |
| Claiming respect from say a man | F |
| That's strong and stem Once more he pries | H |
| Into me with those critic eyes | H |
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| No question so Conclude condemn | I |
| Each failure my poor self avows | H |
| Leave to its fate all you contemn | I |
| There's Solomon's selected spouse | H |
| Earth needs must hold such maids choose them | I |
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| Why he was weeping Surely gone | I |
| Sternness and strength with eyes to ground | B |
| And voice a broken monotone | I |
| Only be as you were Abound | B |
| In foibles faults laugh robed and crowned | B |
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| As Folly's veriest queen care I | J |
| One feather fluff Look pity Love | K |
| On prostrate me your foot shall try | J |
| This forehead's use mount thence above | K |
| And reach what Heaven you dignify | J |
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| Now what could bring such change about | B |
| The thought perplexed till following | L |
| His gaze upon the ground why out | B |
| Came all the secret So a thing | L |
| Thus simple has deposed my king | L |
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| For spite of weeds that strove to spoil | M |
| Plain reading on the lettered slab | N |
| My name was clear enough no soil | M |
| Effaced the date when one chance stab | N |
| Of scorn if only ghosts might blab | N |
Robert Browning
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