After A Quarrel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDCDEEFFGGHHIIJJ| WE have quarreled ugly things have been said | A |
| Bitter things in a tone controlled well bred | A |
| Temperate we weighed our words lest the lust | B |
| Of cruelty lose the edge of being just | B |
| We have quarreled over a trifle one of those trifles | C |
| That strike their roots to the very heart of each | D |
| To the cold and earthy places where even love stifles | C |
| And kindness and friendly habit cannot reach | D |
| Those unexplored vaults of the spirit black unknown | E |
| Where each is a king but a king ashamed alone | E |
| Afraid of the world afraid of friend and foe | F |
| Oh human creatures must quarrel my dear I know | F |
| But if we must let's quarrel for something great | G |
| For something final and dangerous mastery hate | G |
| Freedom or jealousy virtue death or life | H |
| For then two loves leap up on the wings of strife | H |
| Into the sun and air of their own souls' sight | I |
| Locked together joined putting forth all their might | I |
| That love may survive or fail or perish or win | J |
| But perish not for a trifle That is sin | J |
Alice Duer Miller
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