Quatrains Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCD E FGFG H IJIJ K LMMN O PQPQ| MASKS | A |
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| BLACK Tragedy lets slip her grim disguise | B |
| And shows you laughing lips and roguish eyes | B |
| But when unmasked gay Comedy appears | C |
| How wan her cheeks are and what heavy tears | D |
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| MEMORIES | E |
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| TWO things there are with Memory will abide | F |
| Whatever else befall while life flows by | G |
| That soft cold hand touch at the altar side | F |
| The thrill that shook you at your child s first cry | G |
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| CIRCUMSTANCE | H |
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| LINKED to a clod harassed and sad | I |
| With sordid cares she knew not life was sweet | J |
| Who should have moved in marble halls and had | I |
| Kings and crown princes at her feet | J |
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| ON READING | K |
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| GREAT thoughts in crude unshapely verse set forth | L |
| Lose half their preciousness and ever must | M |
| Unless the diamond with its own rich dust | M |
| Be cut and polished it seems little worth | N |
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| QUITS | O |
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| IF my best wines mislike thy taste | P |
| And my best service win thy frown | Q |
| Then tarry not I bid thee haste | P |
| There s many another Inn in town | Q |
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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