After A Quarrel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDCDEEFFGGHHIIJJWE 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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