Cristina Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEFGF A HIJIKHL A MNINOHPH Q ORLROKSK Q KQKQORPR Q TKKKOCQC Q KUCUVCKC Q WCKCHKQK| I | 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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