Meeting at Night - wikipedia Meeting at Night `` Meeting at Night '' by Robert Browning Elizabeth and Robert Browning in 1853 Written 1845 ( 1845 ) First published in Dramatic Romances and Lyrics Language English Read online `` Meeting at Night '' at Wikisource `` Meeting at Night '' is a Victorian English love poem by Robert Browning. The original poem appeared in Dramatic Romances and Lyrics ( 1845 ) in which `` Night '' and `` Morning '' were two sections. In 1849, the poet separated them into the two poems `` Meeting at Night '' and `` Parting at Morning ''. The poem ( like others of the 1845 collection ) was written during the courtship period of Browning with his future wife Elizabeth Barrett. Kennedy and Hair describe the poem as the `` most sensual poem '' he had written up to that time. Contents 1 Background 2 Themes 3 Reception 4 References Background John Kenyon, a distant cousin of Elizabeth Barrett, presented a copy of Barrett 's 1844 poems to Sarianna Browning, sister of Robert Browning. Browning, discovering his name in print in the poem volume, wrote a letter to Barrett on January 10, 1845. Upon getting a reply he sent her the manuscripts of poems and plays of the Dramatic Romances and Lyrics for proofreading. The poems in Dramatic Romances and Lyrics were arranged in groups of two or three with the two love poems `` Night '' and `` Morning '' as complementary. They are described by Kennedy and Hair as `` a compact dramatic narrative reflecting a decidedly masculine attitude toward love. '' Themes The poem is written in two stanzas of six lines each. The first stanza describes the excitement of a secret journey by a boat on the sea. The second stanza describes the joy of the meeting of the two lovers. Like its sister poem `` Parting at Morning '' which uses pronominal reference to attribute the gender of the person in the boat ( as male ), the poem never reveals the identity of the two lovers. It follows the rhyme scheme abccba and deffed. Reception There are two published accounts of this poem : one by F.R. Leavis and another by Ronald Carter and Walter Nash. Kennedy and Hair explain that Browning 's urgent love for Elizabeth Barrett had led him to write `` the most sensual poem he had yet created. '' References ^ Jump up to : Richard S. Kennedy ; Donald S. Hair ( 2007 ). The Dramatic Imagination of Robert Browning : A Literary Life. University of Missouri Press. pp. 134 -- 136. ISBN 978 - 0 - 8262 - 6552 - 4. Jump up ^ Mary Sanders Pollock ( 1 January 2003 ). Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning : A Creative Partnership. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. pp. 61 -- 62. ISBN 978 - 0 - 7546 - 3328 - 0. Jump up ^ Poetics and Linguistics Association. Conference ( 2008 ). The State of Stylistics : PALA 26. Rodopi. pp. 19 -- 21. ISBN 978 - 90 - 420 - 2428 - 1. Jump up ^ Jeanie Watson ; Philip McM. Pittman ; Warren W. Wooden ( January 1989 ). The Portrayal of Life Stages in English Literature, 1500 - 1800 : Infancy, Youth, Marriage, Aging, Death, Martyrdom : Essays in Memory of Warren Wooden. Edwin Mellen Press. p. 22. ISBN 978 - 0 - 88946 - 462 - 9. Robert Browning is doing in `` Meeting at Night '' ( in two six - line stanzas, rhyming abccba ) Jump up ^ F.R. Leavis ( 1975 ). The living principle : `` English '' as a discipline of thought. Chatto & Windus. pp. 120 -- 2. ISBN 978 - 1 - 56663 - 172 - 3. Jump up ^ Ronald Carter ; Walter Nash ( 8 January 1991 ). Seeing Through Language : A Guide To Styles Of English Writing. Wiley. pp. 123 -- 9. ISBN 978 - 0 - 631 - 15135 - 7. Robert Browning Plays Paracelsus ( 1835 ) Strafford ( 1837 ) Pippa Passes ( 1841 ) King Victor and King Charles ( 1842 ) The Return of the Druses ( 1843 ) A Blot in the ' Scutcheon ( 1843 ) Colombe 's Birthday ( 1844 ) Luria ( 1846 ) A Soul 's Tragedy ( 1846 ) In a Balcony ( 1855 ) Poetry collections and poems Pauline : A Fragment of a Confession ( 1833 ) `` Porphyria 's Lover '' ( 1836 ) `` Johannes Agricola in Meditation '' ( 1836 ) Sordello ( 1840 ) Dramatic Lyrics ( 1842, `` My Last Duchess '', `` Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister '', `` Count Gismond '' ) Dramatic Romances and Lyrics ( 1845, `` Home - Thoughts, from Abroad '', `` How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix '', `` Meeting at Night '', `` The Laboratory '', `` The Lost Leader '' ) Christmas - Eve and Easter - Day ( 1850 ) Men and Women ( 1855, `` Love Among the Ruins '', `` Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came '', `` Andrea del Sarto '', `` Fra Lippo Lippi '', `` A Toccata of Galuppi 's '' ) Dramatis Personae ( 1864, `` Rabbi ben Ezra '', `` Caliban upon Setebos '' ) The Ring and the Book ( 1868 - 9 ) Balaustion 's Adventure ( 1871 ) Prince Hohenstiel - Schwangau, Saviour of Society ( 1871 ) Fifine at the Fair ( 1872 ) Red Cotton Night - Cap Country ( 1873 ) Aristophanes ' Apology ( 1875 ) The Inn Album ( 1875 ) Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper ( 1876 ) The Agamemnon of Aeschylus ( 1877 ) La Saisiaz and The Two Poets of Croisic ( 1878 ) Dramatic Idyls ( 1879, 1880 ) Jocoseria ( 1883 ) Ferishtah 's Fancies ( 1884 ) Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day ( 1887 ) Asolando ( 1889 ) Related Browning Society Armstrong Browning Library, collections and papers Clasped Hands of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning ( 1853 sculpture ) The Barretts of Wimpole Street 1934 film 1957 film Family life Elizabeth Barrett Browning ( wife ) Robert Barrett Browning ( son ) Casa Guidi Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meeting_at_Night&oldid=777959905 '' Categories : Poetry by Robert Browning 1845 poems Love poems Hidden categories : Articles that link to Wikisource Talk Contents About Wikipedia Wikisource Polski Edit links This page was last edited on 30 April 2017, at 09 : 55. 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Question: what is the rhyme scheme of meeting at night
Answer: abccba and deffed