After A Quarrel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDCDEEFFGGHHIIJJ

WE have quarreled ugly things have been saidA
Bitter things in a tone controlled well bredA
Temperate we weighed our words lest the lustB
Of cruelty lose the edge of being justB
We have quarreled over a trifle one of those triflesC
That strike their roots to the very heart of eachD
To the cold and earthy places where even love stiflesC
And kindness and friendly habit cannot reachD
Those unexplored vaults of the spirit black unknownE
Where each is a king but a king ashamed aloneE
Afraid of the world afraid of friend and foeF
Oh human creatures must quarrel my dear I knowF
But if we must let's quarrel for something greatG
For something final and dangerous mastery hateG
Freedom or jealousy virtue death or lifeH
For then two loves leap up on the wings of strifeH
Into the sun and air of their own souls' sightI
Locked together joined putting forth all their mightI
That love may survive or fail or perish or winJ
But perish not for a trifle That is sinJ

Alice Duer Miller



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