Cristina Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEFGF A HIJIKHL A MNINOHPH Q ORLROKSK Q KQKQORPR Q TKKKOCQC Q KUCUVCKC Q WCKCHKQKI | A |
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She should never have looked at me | B |
If she meant I should not love her | C |
There are plenty men you call such | D |
I suppose she may discover | C |
All her soul to if she pleases | E |
And yet leave much as she found them | F |
But I'm not so and she knew it | G |
When she fixed me glancing round them | F |
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II | A |
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What To fix me thus meant nothing | H |
But I can't tell there's my weakness | I |
What her look said no vile cant sure | J |
About need to strew the bleakness | I |
Of some lone shore with its pearl seed | K |
That the sea feels'' no strange yearning | H |
That such souls have most to lavish | L |
Where there's chance of least returning '' | - |
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III | A |
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Oh we're sunk enough here God knows | M |
But not quite so sunk that moments | N |
Sure tho' seldom are denied us | I |
When the spirit's true endowments | N |
Stand out plainly from its false ones | O |
And apprise it if pursuing | H |
Or the right way or the wrong way | P |
To its triumph or undoing | H |
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IV | Q |
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There are flashes struck from midnights | O |
There are fire flames noondays kindle | R |
Whereby piled up honours perish | L |
Whereby swollen ambitions dwindle | R |
While just this or that poor impulse | O |
Which for once had play unstifled | K |
Seems the sole work of a life time | S |
That away the rest have trifled | K |
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V | Q |
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Doubt you if in some such moment | K |
As she fixed me she felt clearly | Q |
Ages past the soul existed | K |
Here an age 'tis resting merely | Q |
And hence fleets again for ages | O |
While the true end sole and single | R |
It stops here for is this love way | P |
With some other soul to mingle | R |
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VI | Q |
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Else it loses what it lived for | T |
And eternally must lose it | K |
Better ends may be in prospect | K |
Deeper blisses if you choose it | K |
But this life's end and this love bliss | O |
Have been lost here Doubt you whether | C |
This she felt as looking at me | Q |
Mine and her souls rushed together | C |
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VII | Q |
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Oh observe Of course next moment | K |
The world's honours in derision | U |
Trampled out the light for ever | C |
Never fear but there's provision | U |
Of the devil's to quench knowledge | V |
Lest we walk the earth in rapture | C |
Making those who catch God's secret | K |
Just so much more prize their capture | C |
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VIII | Q |
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Such am I the secret's mine now | W |
She has lost me I have gained her | C |
Her soul's mine and thus grown perfect | K |
I shall pass my life's remainder | C |
Life will just hold out the proving | H |
Both our powers alone and blended | K |
And then come next life quickly | Q |
This world's use will have been ended | K |
Robert Browning
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