Lost Mistress, The Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC A DEDE A FGFG H IBIB H EBEB| I | A |
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| All's over then does truth sound bitter | B |
| As one at first believes | C |
| Hark 'tis the sparrows' good night twitter | B |
| About your cottage eaves | C |
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| II | A |
| - | |
| And the leaf buds on the vine are woolly | D |
| I noticed that to day | E |
| One day more bursts them open fully | D |
| You know the red turns grey | E |
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| III | A |
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| To morrow we meet the same then dearest | F |
| May I take your hand in mine | G |
| Mere friends are we well friends the merest | F |
| Keep much that I resign | G |
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| IV | H |
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| For each glance of the eye so bright and black | I |
| Though I keep with heart's endeavour | B |
| Your voice when you wish the snowdrops back | I |
| Though it stay in my soul for ever | B |
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| V | H |
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| Yet I will but say what mere friends say | E |
| Or only a thought stronger | B |
| I will hold your hand but as long as all may | E |
| Or so very little longer | B |
Robert Browning
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