Pisgah-sights Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDBDB BEBEFGFG HEHEHDHD IEIEBCBC AJEJEBKBK LDLDEMEB EKEKNBNB DHDHHDHD CBCBDEDE HEHEHBHB| I | A |
| Over the ball of it | B |
| Peering and prying | C |
| How I see all of it | B |
| Life there outlying | C |
| Roughness and smoothness | D |
| Shine and defilement | B |
| Grace and uncouthness | D |
| One reconcilement | B |
| - | |
| Orbed as appointed | B |
| Sister with brother | E |
| Joins ne'er disjointed | B |
| One from the other | E |
| All's lend and borrow | F |
| Good see wants evil | G |
| Joy demands sorrow | F |
| Angel weds devil | G |
| - | |
| Which things must why be | H |
| Vain our endeavor | E |
| So shall things aye be | H |
| As they were ever | E |
| Such things should so be | H |
| Sage our desistence | D |
| Rough smooth let globe be | H |
| Mixed man's existence | D |
| - | |
| Man wise and foolish | I |
| Lover and scorner | E |
| Docile and mulish | I |
| Keep each his corner | E |
| Honey yet gall of it | B |
| There's the life lying | C |
| And I see all of it | B |
| Only I'm dying | C |
| - | |
| II | A |
| Could I but live again | J |
| Twice my life over | E |
| Would I once strive again | J |
| Would not I cover | E |
| Quietly all of it | B |
| Greed and ambition | K |
| So from the pall of it | B |
| Pass to fruition | K |
| - | |
| Soft I'd say Soul mine | L |
| Three score and ten years | D |
| Let the blind mole mine | L |
| Digging out deniers | D |
| Let the dazed hawk soar | E |
| Claim the sun's rights tool | M |
| Turf 'tis thy walk's o'er | E |
| Foliage thy flight's to | B |
| - | |
| Only a learner | E |
| Quick one or slow one | K |
| Just a discerner | E |
| I would teach no one | K |
| I am earth's native | N |
| No rearranging it | B |
| I be creative | N |
| Chopping and changing it | B |
| - | |
| March men my fellows | D |
| Those who above me | H |
| Distance so mellows | D |
| Fancy you love me | H |
| Those who below me | H |
| Distance makes great so | D |
| Free to forego me | H |
| Fancy you hate so | D |
| - | |
| Praising reviling | C |
| Worst head and best head | B |
| Past me defiling | C |
| Never arrested | B |
| Wanters abounders | D |
| March in gay mixture | E |
| Men my surrounders | D |
| I am the fixture | E |
| - | |
| So shall I fear thee | H |
| Mightiness yonder | E |
| Mock sun more near thee | H |
| What is to wonder | E |
| So shall I love thee | H |
| Down in the dark lest | B |
| Glowworm I prove thee | H |
| Star that now sparklest | B |
Robert Browning
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