Me !

a heavy heart, beloved, have i borne

from year to year until i saw thy face,

and sorrow after sorrow took the place

of all those natural joys as lightly worn

as the stringed pearls, each lifted in its turn 5

by a beating heart at dance-time. hopes apace

were changed to long despairs, till god's own grace

could scarcely lift above the world forlorn

my heavy heart. then thou didst bid me bring

and let it drop adown thy calmly great 10

deep being! fast it sinketh, as a thing

which its own nature doth precipitate,

while thine doth close above it, mediating

betwixt the stars and the unaccomplished fate.

—elizabeth barrett browning

1- is the poem rhymed or unrhymed?

2-did the poet intend lines four and five to rhyme (or seem to rhyme)?

3-label the rhyme scheme of the poem, beginning with a.