To E.t. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JIKI BLBL| I slumbered with your poems on my breast | A |
| Spread open as I dropped them half read through | B |
| Like dove wings on a figure on a tomb | C |
| To see if in a dream they brought of you | B |
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| I might not have the chance I missed in life | D |
| Through some delay and call you to your face | E |
| First soldier and then poet and then both | F |
| Who died a soldier poet of your race | E |
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| I meant you meant that nothing should remain | G |
| Unsaid between us brother and this remained | H |
| And one thing more that was not then to say | I |
| The Victory for what it lost and gained | H |
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| You went to meet the shell's embrace of fire | J |
| On Vimy Ridge and when you fell that day | I |
| The war seemed over more for you than me | K |
| But now for me than you the other way | I |
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| How over though for even me who knew | B |
| The foe thrust back unsafe beyond the Rhine | L |
| If I was not to speak of it to you | B |
| And see you pleased once more with words of mine | L |
Robert Frost
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