Evelyn Hope Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDE A FGFGHCHC A ICICJFJF K KLKLMKMK K NONOPBPB K QRQRIKIK K SJSJTUTU| I | A |
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| Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead | B |
| Sit and watch by her side an hour | C |
| That is her book shelf this her bed | B |
| She plucked that piece of geranium flower | C |
| Beginning to die too in the glass | D |
| Little has yet been changed I think | E |
| The shutters are shut no light may pass | D |
| Save two long rays thro' the hinge's chink | E |
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| II | A |
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| Sixteen years old when she died | F |
| Perhaps she had scarcely heard my name | G |
| It was not her time to love beside | F |
| Her life had many a hope and aim | G |
| Duties enough and little cares | H |
| And now was quiet now astir | C |
| Till God's hand beckoned unawares | H |
| And the sweet white brow is all of her | C |
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| III | A |
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| Is it too late then Evelyn Hope | I |
| What your soul was pure and true | C |
| The good stars met in your horoscope | I |
| Made you of spirit fire and dew | C |
| And just because I was thrice as old | J |
| And our paths in the world diverged so wide | F |
| Each was nought to each must I be told | J |
| We were fellow mortals nought beside | F |
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| IV | K |
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| No indeed for God above | K |
| Is great to grant as mighty to make | L |
| And creates the love to reward the love | K |
| I claim you still for my own love's sake | L |
| Delayed it may be for more lives yet | M |
| Through worlds I shall traverse not a few | K |
| Much is to learn much to forget | M |
| Ere the time be come for taking you | K |
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| V | K |
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| But the time will come at last it will | N |
| When Evelyn Hope what meant I shall say | O |
| In the lower earth in the years long still | N |
| That body and soul so pure and gay | O |
| Why your hair was amber I shall divine | P |
| And your mouth of your own geranium's red | B |
| And what you would do with me in fine | P |
| In the new life come in the old one's stead | B |
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| VI | K |
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| I have lived I shall say so much since then | Q |
| Given up myself so many times | R |
| Gained me the gains of various men | Q |
| Ransacked the ages spoiled the climes | R |
| Yet one thing one in my soul's full scope | I |
| Either I missed or itself missed me | K |
| And I want and find you Evelyn Hope | I |
| What is the issue let us see | K |
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| VII | K |
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| I loved you Evelyn all the while | S |
| My heart seemed full as it could hold | J |
| There was place and to spare for the frank young smile | S |
| And the red young mouth and the hair's young gold | J |
| So hush I will give you this leaf to keep | T |
| See I shut it inside the sweet cold hand | U |
| There that is our secret go to sleep | T |
| You will wake and remember and understand | U |
Robert Browning
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