Fears And Scruples Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIC KLK BIBI CMCM KNK EOEO CPC BQBQ| Here's my case Of old I used to love him | A |
| This same unseen friend before I knew | B |
| Dream there was none like him none above him | A |
| Wake to hope and trust my dream was true | B |
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| Loved I not his letters full of beauty | C |
| Not his actions famous far and wide | D |
| Absent he would know I vowed him duty | C |
| Present he would find me at his side | D |
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| Pleasant fancy for I had but letters | E |
| Only knew of actions by hearsay | F |
| He himself was busied with my betters | E |
| What of that My turn must come some day | F |
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| 'Some day' proving no day Here's the puzzle | G |
| Passed and passed my turn is Why complain | H |
| He's so busied If I could but muzzle | G |
| People's foolish mouths that give me pain | H |
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| 'Letters ' hear them 'You a judge of writing | I |
| Ask the experts How they shake the head | J |
| O'er these characters your friend's inditing | I |
| Call them forgery from A to Z | C |
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| 'Actions Where's your certain proof' they bother | K |
| 'He of all you find so great and good | L |
| He he only claims this that the other | K |
| Action claimed by men a multitude ' | - |
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| I can simply wish I might refute you | B |
| Wish my friend would by a word a wink | I |
| Bid me stop that foolish mouth you brute you | B |
| He keeps absent why I cannot think | I |
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| Never mind Tho' foolishness may flout me | C |
| One thing's sure enough 'tis neither frost | M |
| No nor fire shall freeze or burn from out me | C |
| Thanks for truth tho' falsehood gained tho' lost | M |
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| All my days I'll go the softlier sadlier | K |
| For that dream's sake How forget the thrill | N |
| Thro' and thro' me as I thought 'The gladlier | K |
| Lives my friend because I love him still ' | - |
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| Ah but there's a menace some one utters | E |
| 'What and if your friend at home play tricks | O |
| Peep at hide and seek behind the shutters | E |
| Mean your eyes should pierce thro' solid bricks | O |
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| 'What and if he frowning wake you dreamy | C |
| Lay on you the blame that bricks conceal | P |
| Say ' At least I saw who did not see me | C |
| Does see now and presently shall feel ' ' | - |
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| 'Why that makes your friend a monster ' say you | B |
| 'Had his house no window At first nod | Q |
| Would you not have hailed him ' Hush I pray you | B |
| What if this friend happen to be God | Q |
Robert Browning
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