Bifurcation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDAEAFGHGHIJIJ KLKLMNMNLOLPQRQRSTET UU| We were two lovers let me lie by her | A |
| My tomb beside her tomb On hers inscribe | B |
| I loved him but my reason bade prefer | A |
| Duty to love reject the tempter's bribe | B |
| Of rose and lily when each path diverged | C |
| And either I must pace to life's far end | D |
| As love should lead me or as duty urged | C |
| Plod the worn causeway arm in arm with friend | D |
| So truth turned falsehood 'How I loathe a flower | A |
| How prize the pavement ' still caressed his ear | E |
| The deafish friend's through life's day hour by hour | A |
| As he laughed coughing 'Ay it would appear ' | F |
| But deep within my heart of hearts there hid | G |
| Ever the confidence amends for all | H |
| That heaven repairs what wrong earth's journey did | G |
| When love from life long exile comes at call | H |
| Duty and love one broad way were the best | I |
| Who doubts But one or other was to choose | J |
| I chose the darkling half and wait the rest | I |
| In that new world where light and darkness fuse | J |
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| Inscribe on mine I loved her love's track lay | K |
| O'er sand and pebble as all travellers know | L |
| Duty led through a smiling country gay | K |
| With greensward where the rose and lily blow | L |
| 'Our roads are diverse farewell love ' said she | M |
| ''Tis duty I abide by homely sward | N |
| And not the rock rough picturesque for me | M |
| Above where both roads join I wait reward | N |
| Be you as constant to the path whereon | L |
| I leave you planted ' But man needs must move | O |
| Keep moving whither when the star is gone | L |
| Whereby he steps secure nor strays from love | P |
| No stone but I was tripped by stumbling block | Q |
| But brought me to confusion Where I fell | R |
| There I lay flat if moss disguised the rock | Q |
| Thence if flint pierced I rose and cried 'All's well | R |
| Duty be mine to tread in that high sphere | S |
| Where love from duty ne'er disparts I trust | T |
| And two halves make that whole whereof since here | E |
| One must sufice a man why this one must | T |
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| Inscribe each tomb thus then some sage acquaint | U |
| The simple which holds sinner which holds saint | U |
Robert Browning
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