Vows Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAAAAA CCCCDDNay ask me not I would not dare pretend | A |
To constant passion and a life long trust | B |
They will desert thee if indeed they must | B |
How can we guess what Destiny will send | A |
Smiles of fair fortune or black storms to rend | A |
What even now is shaken by a gust | A |
The fire will burn or it will die in dust | A |
We cannot tell until the final end | A |
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And never vow was forged that could confine | C |
Aught but the body of the thing whereon | C |
Its pledge was stamped The inner soul divine | C |
That thinks of going is already gone | C |
When faith and love need bolts upon the door | D |
Faith is not faith and love abides no more | D |
Ada Cambridge
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