Cristina Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEFGF A HIJIKHL A MNINOHPH Q ORLROKSK Q KQKQORPR Q TKKKOCQC Q KUCUVCKC Q WCKCHKQK

IA
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She should never have looked at meB
If she meant I should not love herC
There are plenty men you call suchD
I suppose she may discoverC
All her soul to if she pleasesE
And yet leave much as she found themF
But I'm not so and she knew itG
When she fixed me glancing round themF
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IIA
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What To fix me thus meant nothingH
But I can't tell there's my weaknessI
What her look said no vile cant sureJ
About need to strew the bleaknessI
Of some lone shore with its pearl seedK
That the sea feels'' no strange yearningH
That such souls have most to lavishL
Where there's chance of least returning ''-
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IIIA
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Oh we're sunk enough here God knowsM
But not quite so sunk that momentsN
Sure tho' seldom are denied usI
When the spirit's true endowmentsN
Stand out plainly from its false onesO
And apprise it if pursuingH
Or the right way or the wrong wayP
To its triumph or undoingH
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IVQ
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There are flashes struck from midnightsO
There are fire flames noondays kindleR
Whereby piled up honours perishL
Whereby swollen ambitions dwindleR
While just this or that poor impulseO
Which for once had play unstifledK
Seems the sole work of a life timeS
That away the rest have trifledK
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VQ
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Doubt you if in some such momentK
As she fixed me she felt clearlyQ
Ages past the soul existedK
Here an age 'tis resting merelyQ
And hence fleets again for agesO
While the true end sole and singleR
It stops here for is this love wayP
With some other soul to mingleR
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VIQ
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Else it loses what it lived forT
And eternally must lose itK
Better ends may be in prospectK
Deeper blisses if you choose itK
But this life's end and this love blissO
Have been lost here Doubt you whetherC
This she felt as looking at meQ
Mine and her souls rushed togetherC
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VIIQ
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Oh observe Of course next momentK
The world's honours in derisionU
Trampled out the light for everC
Never fear but there's provisionU
Of the devil's to quench knowledgeV
Lest we walk the earth in raptureC
Making those who catch God's secretK
Just so much more prize their captureC
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VIIIQ
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Such am I the secret's mine nowW
She has lost me I have gained herC
Her soul's mine and thus grown perfectK
I shall pass my life's remainderC
Life will just hold out the provingH
Both our powers alone and blendedK
And then come next life quicklyQ
This world's use will have been endedK

Robert Browning



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