In A Year Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADBCD E FGHFIGHI E JKLJMKNM B OPQORPSR B T UVUW B XYBXZYBZ B UUUUA2UUA2 B UB2UUAC2UA Z D2E2 D2F2E2G2 Z BUUBUUUU| Never any more | A |
| While I live | B |
| Need I hope to see his face | C |
| As before | A |
| Once his love grown chill | D |
| Mine may strive | B |
| Bitterly we re embrace | C |
| Single still | D |
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| II | E |
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| Was it something said | F |
| Something done | G |
| Vexed him was it touch of hand | H |
| Turn of head | F |
| Strange that very way | I |
| Love begun | G |
| I as little understand | H |
| Love's decay | I |
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| III | E |
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| When I sewed or drew | J |
| I recall | K |
| How he looked as if I sung | L |
| Sweetly too | J |
| If I spoke a word | M |
| First of all | K |
| Up his cheek the colour sprang | N |
| Then he heard | M |
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| IV | B |
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| Sitting by my side | O |
| At my feet | P |
| So he breathed but air I breathed | Q |
| Satisfied | O |
| I too at love's brim | R |
| Touched the sweet | P |
| I would die if death bequeathed | S |
| Sweet to him | R |
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| V | B |
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| Speak I love thee best '' | - |
| He exclaimed | T |
| Let thy love my own foretell '' | - |
| I confessed | U |
| Clasp my heart on thine | V |
| Now unblamed | U |
| Since upon thy soul as well | W |
| Hangeth mine '' | - |
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| VI | B |
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| Was it wrong to own | X |
| Being truth | Y |
| Why should all the giving prove | B |
| His alone | X |
| I had wealth and ease | Z |
| Beauty youth | Y |
| Since my lover gave me love | B |
| I gave these | Z |
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| VII | B |
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| That was all I meant | U |
| To be just | U |
| And the passion I had raised | U |
| To content | U |
| Since he chose to change | A2 |
| Gold for dust | U |
| If I gave him what he praised | U |
| Was it strange | A2 |
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| VIII | B |
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| Would he loved me yet | U |
| On and on | B2 |
| While I found some way undreamed | U |
| Paid my debt | U |
| Gave more life and more | A |
| Till all gone | C2 |
| He should smile She never seemed | U |
| Mine before | A |
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| IX | Z |
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| What she felt the while | D2 |
| Must I think | E2 |
| Love's so different with us men '' | - |
| He should smile | D2 |
| Dying for my sake | F2 |
| White and pink | E2 |
| Can't we touch these bubbles then | G2 |
| But they break '' | - |
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| X | Z |
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| Dear the pang is brief | B |
| Do thy part | U |
| Have thy pleasure How perplexed | U |
| Grows belief | B |
| Well this cold clay clod | U |
| Was man's heart | U |
| Crumble it and what comes next | U |
| Is it God | U |
Robert Browning
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