The Portrait Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFE GHG IJIJ ABAB| I watch you gazing at me from the wall | A |
| And wonder how you'd match your dreams with mine | B |
| If mastering time's illusion I could call | A |
| You back to share this quiet candle shine | B |
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| For you were young three hundred years ago | C |
| And by your looks I guess that you were wise | D |
| Come whisper soft and Death will never know | C |
| You've slipped away from those calm painted eyes | D |
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| Strange is your voice Poor ninny dead so long | E |
| And all your pride forgotten like your name | F |
| 'One April morn I heard a blackbird's song | E |
| And joy was in my heart like leaves aflame ' | - |
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| And so you died before your songs took wing | G |
| While Andrew Marvell followed in your wake | H |
| 'Love thrilled me into music I could sing | G |
| But for a moment but for beauty's sake ' | - |
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| Who passes There's a star lit breeze that stirs | I |
| The glimmer of white lilies in the gloom | J |
| Who speaks Death has his silent messengers | I |
| And there was more than silence in this room | J |
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| While you were gazing at me from the wall | A |
| And wondering how you'd match your dreams with mine | B |
| If mastering time's illusion you could call | A |
| Me back to share your vanished candle shine | B |
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon
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