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The Battle of Blenheim
The Ninety and Nine
The Princess: The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls
Upon my Lap my Sovereign Sits
ababcdcd efefcgcg ...
How Did You Die?
abaaabcc dedddeff gghh
A Courtin' Call
aabbccdeed
I have been a Foster
Passtime with good company
aabccbdd
A Vote
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
aabbcddc
The Wish
abbabccddccdff
Sonnet to William Wilberforce, Esq.
ababccdeedffghhg
The Beira Malaria
aabcdcdab
The House of Clay
aa
A Lame Begger
A Licentious Person
A Self Accuser
A Servant
An Obscure Writer
An Only Son
Antiquary
Common Form
Confession
Disinherited
Divine Epigrams: Samson to his Delilah
Four Errors
He that Doth Wend Her
Hero and Leander
KINDNESS TO ANIMALS
Klockius
Manliness
Niobe
Phryne
Pyramus and Thisbe
Ralphius
Second Fig
Sestets - ababcc
In the Holy Nativity of our Lord
abbaaccc
The Canoe
The Curse
ababcdccd
The Dark Stag
unrhymed except for lyric interludes
Malcolm's Katie: A Love Story
abcbdefe (and varies)
Old Spookses' Pass
ababbcddc
A Runnable Stag
ababcb
Blues for X
Empty Bed Blues
Praise, my Soul, the King of Heaven (Psalm 103)
Thirty Bob a Week
abcbcabdde
Art Thou Poor
abcb (off-rhyme)
A little east of Jordan (59)
As imperceptibly as grief
Dying
Exclusion
I never hear the word "escape" (77)
I'm nobody! Who are you?
It was not death, for I stood up (510)
Retrospect
The bustle in the house (1078)
The Chariot
The Railway Train
The Snake
Tie the strings to my life, my Lord
Wild nights!--wild nights! (249)
abcb (irregular)
"Hope" is the thing with feathers (254)
ababcbcb
Gethsemane
Song
abbabacdcddeee
Air and Angels
abbabcdcdceffeggg
The Apparition
abbacccaa
The Canonization
abbaccddee
The Dream
abbaabbacdcdee
A Sea of Foliage Girds our Garden round
Astrophel and Stella LXIV
Astrophel and Stella LXXI
Astrophel and Stella LXXXIV
Astrophel and Stella XCII
Astrophel and Stella XLI
Astrophel and Stella XXIII
Astrophel and Stella XXXI
Holy Sonnets: At the round earth's imagin'd corners, blow
Holy Sonnets: Batter my heart, three-person'd God
Holy Sonnets: I am a little world made cunningly
Holy Sonnets: Show me dear Christ, thy spouse so bright and clear
Holy Sonnets: Since she whom I lov'd hath paid her last debt
Holy Sonnets: This is my play's last scene
Holy Sonnets: Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?
On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
Reuben Bright
The Bushman
The Caffer
The Evening Star
The Growth of Love XI
The Hottentot
The House of Life: The Sonnet
To Night
To the Sun-Dial
abbaabbacddcee
Avising the Bright Beams
Farewell Love and all thy Laws for ever
Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud
Holy Sonnets: If poisonous minerals, and if that tree
I Abide and Abide and Better Abide
I Scarce Believed
My Galley, Charged with Forgetfulness
Sonnet XVI: To the Lord General Cromwell
The Cow Pasture
The House of Life: 36. Life-in-Love
The Peddler (Female)
The Peddler (Male)
Unstable Dream
Whoso List to Hunt, I Know where is an Hind
ababcc (first stanza), aabccb
Visualization of Marxism
aabbcccc
Love's Usury
aabbcddceee
A Lecture upon the Shadow
The Relic
aabbacddccee
Love's Alchemy
ababcdcdeee
Lovers' Infiniteness
abbacccdd
A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day
A Valediction: of the Book
The Indifferent
ababccddd
Song: Go and catch a falling star
The Sting of Death
ababcddc
Before Action
Song: Sweetest love, I do not go
abbacdcdee
The Sun Rising
aabbbcdcdee
The Triple Fool
abbaccddd
A Valediction: of Weeping
abba ccdd efef gb
Golden Retrievals
ababcddcd
Weep You No More, Sad Fountains
abbacddcefefef
A Last Word
abadbd
Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae
abccab
Non Nobis, Domine
Ode to the Virginian Voyage
Written with a Pencil in Darfield Churchyard
ababababcddcee
For the Baptist
aabcbcbdd
Madrigal: My Thoughts Hold Mortal Strife
Shuffle-Shoon and Amber-Locks
abbabcbcdedeff
Sonnet: What doth it Serve
aabbbc
Little Bateese
aabcbcb
From Troilus and Cressida
aabbcdcdefefaaabb
A Song from the Italian from Limberham: or, the Kind Keeper
aabccdb eefggdf
At the Tavern
ababcdcd aeaefgfg hihijkjk lmlmnana
Little Brown Baby
abcba adeda afgfa
Ships that Pass in the Night
aabba aabc aabbac
We Wear the Mask
Whatever Is
abcbdefeghgh
Retrospect
There's Nae Luck about the House
When de Co'n Pone's Hot
ababbcbc
Ballade at Thirty-five
Ballade of Evil
In Women is Rest, Peas, and Pacience
To Rosemounde
To the City of London
Villon's Straight Tip to All Cross Coves
irregularly rhyming.
The Waste Land
aab
Written with a Diamond on her Window at Woodstock
ababccddee
A Celebration of Charis: IV. Her Triumph
Written on a Wall at Woodstock
ababcdcdd
The Christening
The Farmer's Ingle
couplets and triplets
The Kangaroo
aabcbcdd
On Broadway
Pittypat and Tippytoe
ababcdcddeef
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
aaba
Caesar's Song
In the Hand of the Wind
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
The Pilot of the Plains
The Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne
The Solitary Woodsman
ababbccc
Christ's Triumph after Death
aabb ababb
Beautiful Dreamer Serenade
aabb [ignoring the Chorus]
Gwine to Run All Night, or De Camptown Races
[Solo] ababcdcd [Chorus] baab
My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night!
[Solo] ababcdcd [Chorus] bb
Oh! Susanna
[Solo] aabb [Chorus] bb
Old Black Joe
[Solo] ababcdcd [Chorus] eded [later efef as well]
Old Folks at Home
abbaccdedfefghhhgijigkjlklmnnmoopqrpqststr
After Apple Picking
abaabcbcb
Fire and Ice
ababababcdcdee
Astrophel and Stella VII
Astrophel and Stella XX
Astrophel and Stella XXXIII
Astrophel and Stella XXXIX
Putting in the Seed
aabcbdcdeefgfg
The Oven Bird
abbc deec
The Pasture
abbabbaccdeed
Range-finding
occasional rhymes
Old Men
The Star-splitter
aaba bbcb ccdc dddd
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
aabbbccddd, followed by couplets
The Repulse to Alcander
rhyming variously
The Beggar's Opera
irregularly rhyming (quatrains and couplets)
Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude
The Bard: A Pindaric Ode
ababababcdcdcd
On the Death of Richard West
abab, with one stanza of ababab
Into Battle
ababcdcd (except stanza 1)
Mary's Lamb
ababba
The Masked Face
abbcaddcc
No Buyers
ababcc dedeff gg hh
Gorgon, or the Wonderful Year
ab cb dd ee
The Age Demanded
abbacddcefgefg
Croquis
[Did you love well what very soon you left?]
ababbccdede
Double Ballade of the Nothingness of Things
ababa (irregular)
Though some Saith that Youth Ruleth me
ababacdcdc
Easter Wings
ababccdede
The Pearl
ababcdcdeffegg
Prayer (I)
Sonnets from an Ungrafted Tree
abcbddceae
To Daffodils
aabbbcc
The Chambered Nautilus
ababacc
Contentment
Iceland First Seen
abcbdedde
The Song of the Shirt
abacbaccddeffggefhehheee
Binsey Poplars
abbaabbaccdccd
Felix Randal
I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark
The Caged Skylark
abbaabbacdcdcddccceeefff
That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire
abcabcdbede
Pied Beauty
abbaabbaccdeed
Astrophel and Stella XV
The Salt Flats
The Starlight Night
To Arthur Edmonds
aaaaaaaabcbcbc
The Windhover
abcb or abab
A Walk by Moonlight
My Last Dance
abcadcc
The Embankment
abbaabbaccdcdd
A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning
A Thought of the Nile
abbaaa cddccc aeeaaa
Doubt
abcb (last stanza: abab)
September
abbccca
Shadow River: Muskoka
aabccb ...
A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme
abbacc abbab ...
A Hymn to God the Father
aabbaccddc
The Metamorphosed Gypsies
The Time I've Lost in Wooing
abbbacccbbdeedfggf
My Picture Left in Scotland
abaabb
An Ode to Himself
The Last Leap
aabbccddee, aabbccddee, ababccdeedff
A Pindaric Ode
abcbabcb
Song to Celia
abcabdcabcdede
If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain'd
abcb, abcbdb
Meg Merrilies
ababcdedce
Ode on a Grecian Urn
ababcdecde
Ode on Melancholy
ababcdedcce
To Autumn
abbaabbacdcede
The Sonnets of Ishtar
Tho' Lack of Laurels and of Wreaths Not One
To One who has been Long in City Pent
ababcdcdbcfgfg
To Sleep
abbaccdd abbaccbc
If I should die
aaabaaab
Injun Summah
aab ccb
Thunder at Night
aabaab (title stanzas) and aabbcc (sub-stanzas)
The King and Queen of Hearts
tercets, rhyming abc dec fgc hic ...
The Old Familiar Faces
aabaab
To Margaret W------
varying rhyme scheme
At the Long Sault: May, 1660
abab, continuously
The City at the End of Things
abbacdeedc
Comfort of the Fields
abbaaccadedeff; abbaaccadedffe
The Frogs
ababcdcdefeggf
In Beechwood Cemetery
abbaaccadeffed
In November (1)
The Onondaga Madonna
abbaaccadeedff
A January Morning
abbacddcefegfg
A Niagara Landscape
ababcdcdeefggf
On Lake Temiscamingue
abbaaccadefefd
On the Companionship with Nature
Reality
abbaaccadeefdf
Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge
Outlook
To a Millionaire
abbaabbacdcdff
The Railway Station
abbaaccaddeffe
A Sunset at Les Eboulements
abbaaccadeffde
A Thunderstorm
ababcdcdeefgfg
Temagami
Thersites
abbaaccadefdef
In an Old Barn
The Herring Weir
abbacdeced
We too shall Sleep
abbaaccadefdfe
It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free
Mutability
Winter Evening
abcbdb efgfg hihii
The Bride
abcbdefgef dhijkcff
Gloire de Dijon
abacb dedce ....
Last Words to Miriam
abaccab adaeeed
People
aab cdd eff ffc gg
When I Read Shakespeare --
abcb dede fghf iiii
A Youth Mowing
aabbcbb
Faces in the Street
irregular abcbdefe
The Great Grey Plain
ababccdda and variants
The Quangle Wangle's Hat
ababbcbc, last stanza abab
Ballade of an Omnibus
aabbccddeeffggaa
Epitaph (on a Commonplace Person Who Died in Bed)
aab ccb (repeating pairs of stanzas)
To Lallie
abcdcec
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
ababcdeded
Like to the Clear in Highest Sphere
ababccccd
Rosalind's Madrigal
aabcccb
Ad Non Conscriptum
Aftermath
aabbc ddeec ....
Excelsior
couplets and quatrains
Each and All
Fate
The Landlord's Tale. Paul Revere's Ride
The Rhodora
abaabcdde
My Lost Youth
aabcdb
There was a little girl
abcbefgh ijkjlhgh mnonphgh
The Lake of a Thousand Isles
abcdefeghigjkljmcnnh
Countrywomen
aabbc aabd aabbad
In Flanders Fields
ababbd efeffd ghghhi
The Pilgrims
abcbacdedffgeeg
Dirge in Woods
abbacddcefeggf
Lucifer in Starlight
abbacddceffeghhg
Modern Love: I
Modern Love: II
Modern Love: L
Modern Love: XIV
Modern Love: XLVI
Modern Love: XVI
Modern Love: XX
Modern Love: XXII
Modern Love: XXVI
Modern Love: XXXIV
abbabaab
Song in the Songless
aba bcb cdc eff
Dirge
abcdbdc
Ebb
abcbdddb
The Penitent
abbaabbacdedce
Sonnet VII: How soon hath Time, the Subtle Thief of Youth
Sonnets (1923)
abaaab
Sorrow
The Feud
varying ababbaccddeeff, abcbaddc, couplets, aabccbddeefg
Comus
varying (mainly couplets)
Il Penseroso
L'Allegro
irregular.
Lycidas
abbaabbacddcdc
On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester
Sonnet XII: I did but Prompt the Age to Quit their Clogs
Sonnets from The River Duddon: After-Thought
abbaabbacdceed
To Mr. Lawrence
ababcddc, ababcbbc
Sunrise along Shore
ababcdcdee
Ave! (An Ode for the Shelley Centenary, 1892)
The Dying Hunter to his Dog
abbcd
Peter
ababccdeed abab ...
Oft, in the Stilly Night (Scotch Air)
aaaabbbbb
On a Fair Morning as I Came by the Way
aba bcb cdc ...
If?
The Defence of Guenevere
aabccbccb (1); ababb (2, 3, 5); abbabc (4); abaabc cdcdde efeffcc (6); ababcdcdeeb (7); ababcbcc (8); ababbc (9)
Love is Enough: Songs I-IX
ababab ... aaaa
Shameful Death
ab baab abab baab abab
Sir Giles' War-Song
aabcb
Jack Sprat
abcc
Three wise men of Gotham
ababcdcd [and chorus]
Beauty Sat Bathing by a Spring
aaab cccb dddb
In a Herber Green Asleep Whereas I Lay
Spring, the sweet spring
aabbccd
Adieu, farewell earth's bliss
Jesous Ahatonhia
abcbdd ebebff gbgbhh
The Pillar of the Cloud
aabbac deffgg hdggii aajjkk llmmnn ooppnn qqrrss
The Careless Good Fellow
abababab and aabbcdcd
Ode
ababcdcd effegg
Anthem for Doomed Youth
aabb (consonant-rhymes)
Arms and the Boy
abbac
Exposure
ababccc dedefff
Futility
ababcdcdefefghgh
The Foreign Land
The Guards Came Through
aabbcc ddeecc
Song
aaaabbb
Seamen Three
aabbccdd (last stanza: aabbbbdd)
Can a Maid That Is Well Bred
abacadac
Edward
Edward, Edward
abcbdefege
The Factory Girl
The Prince's Progress
abacbc
Song
War Song of the Embattled Finns
abcbbb
The Raven
aaaab aaaab
You know where you did despise
aa[bb]aa[cc]aaaaaa
Ancient Music
irregular couplets and quatrains
Envoi
abbaaccadedede
A Poet! He Hath Put his Heart to School
It is not to be Thought of
November, 1806
On King Arthur's Round Table at Winchester
On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic
To Sir Walter Scott
abab cdcd efef ghgh ii
Prais'd be Diana's Fair and Harmless Light
aabbccddeffe
An Ode to Master Anthony Stafford, to Hasten him into the Country
abbaabbacdcddc
Love Came to Flora Asking for a Flower
Mors Benefica
aabbccdeefgd
Little Orphant Annie
ababccdcddeeeff
Our Hired Girl
occasionally rhyming
A Favor of Love
Dead Man's Dump
Getting Born
The New Mothers
Wedding
final assonance and consonance
The Jew
rhyming irregularly
Goblin Market
abbaabbacdedce and variants
Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets
aaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaa
Passing away, Saith the World
abbaabbacddece
London, 1802
Remember
abbacccadede
The Cloud Confines
abbaabbacddccd
The House of Life: 22. Heart's Haven
The House of Life: 97. A Superscription
abbaacca deedde
The House of Life: 41. Through Death to Love
abbaacca defdef
The House of Life: 66. The Heart of the Night
abbaabbacdeedc
Near Helikon
The House of Life: 71. The Choice, I
The House of Life: 72. The Choice, II
abbacdcd
AIEN ARISTEUEIN
Insomnia
Wonder
ababbab
Love's Nocturn
ababccddc
The Portrait
The Shepheardes Calender: April
abaaccb
Sister Helen
abcda
Jack
ababcdcdaabb
The Lady of the Lake: Canto 1
aabb and refrain
Lullaby of an Infant Chief
aa and refrain
MacGregor's Gathering
ababcdcdefef and ababcdcded
Rokeby: Canto III
abbcac ddaeaeff ghgafahfii
I have a Rendezvous with Death
ababbcbcdedeff
On the Shortness of Time
Sonnet XVI: Who shall Invoke her
ababccedd
Full Fadom Fiue Thy Father Lies
abba ... aaa
The Phoenix and the Turtle
ababcccc
Danny Boy
Take, O Take those Lips Away
aabbcac aabbcdc
Under the Greenwood Tree
ababccdee
When Daisies Pied and Violets Blue
aabbcd
And like a Dying Lady, Lean and Pale
continuous quatrains (abcbdefe ...)
The Cloud
abababcdcdccdd
England in 1819
ababcdedeffc
Hymn of Pan
abbaaccbddee
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
abcbadcd
Ben Bolt
The Indian Serenade
couplets, triplets, etc
Julian and Maddalo
aabab
A Lament
My Lute Awake
abccaab
Lines: The cold earth slept below
ababacdcedefef
Ozymandias
ababc ccdcc
Time
ababbb
Time Long Past
abacbabc
The Two Spirits: An Allegory
ababaab
To Night
abab ccc
Here's to the Maiden of Bashful Fifteen
aabbccb
If a Daughter you have
aaa bbb ccdd eeffgg
Cease, Warring Thoughts
abab abab cdc dee
Astrophel and Stella I
ababababccdeed
Astrophel and Stella III
aabcbcddee
Ring Out Your Bells
ababbabacddcdc
To Germany
ababbabacdcdcd
When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead
ababbcbccdcdee
Amoretti III: The Sovereign Beauty
Amoretti LXVII: Like as a Huntsman
Amoretti LXVIII: Most Glorious Lord of Life
Amoretti LXXIV: Most Happy Letters
Amoretti LXXIX: Men Call you Fair
Amoretti LXXV: One Day I Wrote her Name
Amoretti XXII: This Holy Season
ababccbceefggffhh
Epithalamion
abbaacdcddeefeffgg
Prothalamion
abbaba
The Shepheardes Calender: October
abbaabbaccdbbd
A Sonnet
After the Golden Wedding (Three Soliloquies)
ababbcbc ababbcbc ababbcbc bcbc
The Ballade of the Incompetent Ballade-Monger
abab cdcd bebe fgfg hbhb idid jeje kbkb
The Malefactor's Plea
abcbdeae
The Old School List
abccbabddb efddfefddf
The Philosopher and the Philanthropist
ababababefgefg
4th July, 1882, Malines. Midnight
aaab cccb
The Reaper
abcbdefedfgf, varying
Back and Side go Bare
abbabaabcddece
Be Still. The Hanging Gardens were a Dream
aba
I Hear a River thro' the Valley Wander
In Old Age
abbabaabcdeedc
Live Blindly and upon the Hour
a bab a cac a ...
Mnemosyne
aabccb aabb ....
Song: If you refuse me once, and think again
abacbdd
Sonnet 1: Dost see how unregarded now
ababababababcc
Alas! so all Things now do Hold their Peace
The Frailty and Hurtfulness of Beauty
The Suburbs
blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter)
The Seasons: A Poem
ababcdcdececff
Love that doth Reign and Live within my Thought
abab ... ababcc
Of the Death of Sir T. W. The Elder
ababababababaa
The Soote Season, that Bud and Bloom forth Brings
ababccab
Atalanta in Calydon
abbaccdeede
Ave Atque Vale
ababbccdc
The Epitaph in Form of a Ballad which Villon Made for Himself and his Comrades, Expecting to be Hanged along with Them
ababcdcdefefghghiijjklkl (with some variation)
The Last Oracle
aababaa
A Leave-taking
aabbcbc
March: An Ode
aabcddbc
The Pilgrims
aab ccb ...
Idylls of the King: Song from The Marriage of Geraint
aabbcdddc
The Lady of Shalott (1832)
The Lady of Shalott (1842)
aab ccb ddb eeb
Late, Late, so Late
ababcddcefef
Mariana
abccbdbebfbggb
The Princess: As thro' the Land
ababaabc
The Princess: Sweet and Low
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