Broken Music Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKM NONO| I know not in what fashion she was made | A |
| Nor what her voice was when she used to speak | B |
| Nor if the silken lashes threw a shade | A |
| On wan or rosy cheek | B |
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| I picture her with sorrowful vague eyes | C |
| Illumed with such strange gleams of inner light | D |
| As linger in the drift of London skies | C |
| Ere twilight turns to night | D |
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| I know not I conjecture 'Twas a girl | E |
| That with her own most gentle desperate hand | F |
| From out God's mystic setting plucked life's pearl | E |
| 'Tis hard to understand | F |
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| So precious life is Even to the old | G |
| The hours are as a miser's coins and she | H |
| Within her hands lay youth's unminted gold | G |
| And all felicity | H |
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| The winged impetuous spirit the white flame | I |
| That was her soul once whither has it flown | J |
| Above her brow gray lichens blot her name | I |
| Upon the carven stone | J |
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| This is her Book of Verses wren like notes | K |
| Shy franknesses blind gropings haunting fears | L |
| At times across the chords abruptly floats | K |
| A mist of passionate tears | M |
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| A fragile lyre too tensely keyed and strung | N |
| A broken music weirdly incomplete | O |
| Here a proud mind self baffled and self stung | N |
| Lies coiled in dark defeat | O |
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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