Sonnet Xi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEEFGHGGHG| When among creatures fair of countenance | A |
| Love comes enformed in such proud character | B |
| So far as other beauty yields to her | B |
| So far the breast with fiercer longing pants | C |
| I bless the spot and hour and circumstance | D |
| That wed desire to a thing so high | E |
| And say Glad soul rejoice for thou and I | E |
| Of bliss unpaired are made participants | F |
| Hence have come ardent thoughts and waking dreams | G |
| That feeding Fancy from so sweet a cup | H |
| Leave it no lust for gross imaginings | G |
| Through her the woman's perfect beauty gleams | G |
| That while it gazes lifts the spirit up | H |
| To that high source from which all beauty springs | G |
Alan Seeger
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