The Laboratory-ancien Régime Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCC ADDEE AFFGG HHII JJKK LL MMEE D JNNOO JPPJJ JJJJJ JQQJJI | A |
Now that I tying thy glass mask tightly | B |
May gaze thro' these faint smokes curling whitely | B |
As thou pliest thy trade in this devil's smithy | C |
Which is the poison to poison her prithee | C |
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II | A |
He is with her and they know that I know | D |
Where they are what they do they believe my tears flow | D |
While they laugh laugh at me at me fled to the drear | E |
Empty church to pray God in for them I am here | E |
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III | A |
Grind away moisten and mash up thy paste | F |
Pound at thy powder I am not in haste | F |
Better sit thus and observe thy strange things | G |
Than go where men wait me and dance at the King's | G |
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IV | - |
That in the mortar you call it a gum | H |
Ah the brave tree whence such gold oozings come | H |
And yonder soft phial the exquisite blue | I |
Sure to taste sweetly is that poison too | I |
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V | - |
Had I but all of them thee and thy treasures | J |
What a wild crowd of invisible pleasures | J |
To carry pure death in an earring a casket | K |
A signet a fan mount a filigree basket | K |
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VI | - |
Soon at the King's a mere lozenge to give | - |
And Pauline should have just thirty minutes to live | - |
But to light a pastile and Elise with her head | L |
And her breast and her arms and her hands should drop dead | L |
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VII | - |
Quick is it finished The colour's too grim | M |
Why not soft like the phial's enticing and dim | M |
Let it brighten her drink let her turn it and stir | E |
And try it and taste ere she fix and prefer | E |
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VIII | - |
What a drop She's not little no minion like me | - |
That's why she ensnared him this never will free | - |
The soul from those masculine eyes Say no '' | - |
To that pulse's magnificent come and go | D |
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IX | J |
For only last night as they whispered I brought | N |
My own eyes to bear on her so that I thought | N |
Could I keep them one half minute fixed she would fall | O |
Shrivelled she fell not yet this does it all | O |
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X | J |
Not that I bid you spare her the pain | P |
Let death be felt and the proof remain | P |
Brand burn up bite into its grace | J |
He is sure to remember her dying face | J |
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XI | J |
Is it done Take my mask off Nay be not morose | J |
It kills her and this prevents seeing it close | J |
The delicate droplet my whole fortune's fee | J |
If it hurts her beside can it ever hurt me | J |
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XII | J |
Now take all my jewels gorge gold to your fill | Q |
You may kiss me old man on my mouth if you will | Q |
But brush this dust off me lest horror it brings | J |
Ere I know it next moment I dance at the King's | J |
Robert Browning
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