Counting The Beats Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BBBA CCCA DDDA EEEA BBBA| You love and I | A |
| He whispers you and I | A |
| And if no more than only you and I | A |
| What care you or I | A |
| - | |
| Counting the beats | B |
| Counting the slow heart beats | B |
| The bleeding to death of time in slow heart beats | B |
| Wakeful they lie | A |
| - | |
| Cloudless day | C |
| Night and a cloudless day | C |
| Yet the huge storm will burst upon their heads one day | C |
| From a bitter sky | A |
| - | |
| Where shall we be | D |
| She whispers where shall we be | D |
| When death strikes home O where then shall we be | D |
| Who were you and I | A |
| - | |
| Not there but here | E |
| He whispers only here | E |
| As we are here together now and here | E |
| Always you and I | A |
| - | |
| Counting the beats | B |
| Counting the slow heart beats | B |
| The bleeding to death of time in slow heart beats | B |
| Wakeful they lie | A |
Robert Graves
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