De Gustibus--- Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBBBBDDDDD A EEFGHBBHHBEEBBIIBBBB BJJJBKKBBK KK| I | A |
| - | |
| Your ghost will walk you lover of trees | B |
| If our loves remain | C |
| In an English lane | C |
| By a cornfield side a flutter with poppies | B |
| Hark those two in the hazel coppice | B |
| A boy and a girl if the good fates please | B |
| Making love say | B |
| The happier they | B |
| Draw yourself up from the light of the moon | D |
| And let them pass as they will too soon | D |
| With the bean flowers' boon | D |
| And the blackbird's tune | D |
| And May and June | D |
| - | |
| II | A |
| - | |
| What I love best in all the world | E |
| Is a castle precipice encurled | E |
| In a gash of the wind grieved Apennine | F |
| Or look for me old fellow of mine | G |
| If I get my head from out the mouth | H |
| O' the grave and loose my spirit's bands | B |
| And come again to the land of lands | B |
| In a sea side house to the farther South | H |
| Where the baked cicala dies of drouth | H |
| And one sharp tree 'tis a cypress stands | B |
| By the many hundred years red rusted | E |
| Rough iron spiked ripe fruit o'ercrusted | E |
| My sentinel to guard the sands | B |
| To the water's edge For what expands | B |
| Before the house but the great opaque | I |
| Blue breadth of sea without a break | I |
| While in the house for ever crumbles | B |
| Some fragment of the frescoed walls | B |
| From blisters where a scorpion sprawls | B |
| A girl bare footed brings and tumbles | B |
| Down on the pavement green flesh melons | B |
| And says there's news to day the king | J |
| Was shot at touched in the liver wing | J |
| Goes with his Bourbon arm in a sling | J |
| She hopes they have not caught the felons | B |
| Italy my Italy | K |
| Queen Mary's saying serves for me | K |
| When fortune's malice | B |
| Lost her Calais | B |
| Open my heart and you will see | K |
| Graved inside of it Italy '' | - |
| Such lovers old are I and she | K |
| So it always was so shall ever be | K |
Robert Browning
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