The ROMANTIC:
>abab< The Little Black Boy
The Tyger >aabb<
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Willian Blake / 1757 - 1827
>ababcc<'Daffodils'/ I WANDER'D lonely as a cloud
THE RAINBOW >abccabedd<
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William Wordsworth / 1770 - 1850
>ababab< She Walks in Beauty
When We Two Parted >ababb<
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Lord Byron / 1788 - 1824
Ode to a Skylark
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Percy Shelly
The VICTORIAN:
>aabb< My Last Duchess
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Robert Browning ( 1812 - 1889 )
Break, Break, Break
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Alfred Lord Tennyson / 1809 - 1892
The MODERN:
Next, Please
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Philip Larkin / 1922 - 1985 / aabb