Time's Revenges Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEAFFGGHHIIJK LLAAMMNOPP QQIIRRAASSTTUUVWXXYY ZZA2A2B2B2C2C2AAC2C2 BB D2D2| I've a Friend over the sea | A |
| I like him but he loves me | A |
| It all grew out of the books I write | B |
| They find such favour in his sight | B |
| That he slaughters you with savage looks | C |
| Because you don't admire my books | C |
| He does himself though and if some vein | D |
| Were to snap to night in this heavy brain | D |
| To morrow month if I lived to try | E |
| Round should I just turn quietly | A |
| Or out of the bedclothes stretch my hand | F |
| Till I found him come from his foreign land | F |
| To be my nurse in this poor place | G |
| And make my broth and wash my face | G |
| And light my fire and all the while | H |
| Bear with his old good humoured smile | H |
| That I told him Better have kept away | I |
| Than come and kill me night and day | I |
| With worse than fever throbs and shoots | J |
| The creaking of his clumsy boots '' | K |
| I am as sure that this he would do | L |
| As that Saint Paul's is striking two | L |
| And I think I rather woe is me | A |
| Yes rather would see him than not see | A |
| If lifting a hand could seat him there | M |
| Before me in the empty chair | M |
| To night when my head aches indeed | N |
| And I can neither think nor read | O |
| Nor make these purple fingers hold | P |
| The pen this garret's freezing cold | P |
| - | |
| And I've a Lady there he wakes | Q |
| The laughing fiend and prince of snakes | Q |
| Within me at her name to pray | I |
| Fate send some creature in the way | I |
| Of my love for her to be down torn | R |
| Upthrust and outward borne | R |
| So I might prove myself that sea | A |
| Of passion which I needs must be | A |
| Call my thoughts false and my fancies quaint | S |
| And my style infirm and its figures faint | S |
| All the critics say and more blame yet | T |
| And not one angry word you get | T |
| But please you wonder I would put | U |
| My cheek beneath that lady's foot | U |
| Rather than trample under mine | V |
| The laurels of the Florentine | W |
| And you shall see how the devil spends | X |
| A fire God gave for other ends | X |
| I tell you I stride up and down | Y |
| This garret crowned with love's best crown | Y |
| And feasted with love's perfect feast | Z |
| To think I kill for her at least | Z |
| Body and soul and peace and fame | A2 |
| Alike youth's end and manhood's aim | A2 |
| So is my spirit as flesh with sin | B2 |
| Filled full eaten out and in | B2 |
| With the face of her the eyes of her | C2 |
| The lips the little chin the stir | C2 |
| Of shadow round her month and she | A |
| I'll tell you calmly would decree | A |
| That I should roast at a slow fire | C2 |
| If that would compass her desire | C2 |
| And make her one whom they invite | B |
| To the famous ball to morrow night | B |
| - | |
| There may be heaven there must be hell | D2 |
| Meantime there is our earth here well | D2 |
Robert Browning
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