Not Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA BCB CDC DED EFE FGF GHG IJI JIJ| I HAVE not yet I could have loved thee sweet | A |
| Nor know I wherefore thou being all thou art | B |
| The engrafted thought in me throve incomplete | A |
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| And grew to summer strength in every part | B |
| Of root and leaf but hath not borne the flower | C |
| Love hath refrained his fullness from my heart | B |
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| I know no better beauty none with power | C |
| To hold mine eyes through change and change as thine | D |
| Like southern skies that alter with each hour | C |
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| And yet are changeless and their calm divine | D |
| From light to light hath motionlessly passed | E |
| With only different loveliness for sign | D |
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| I know no fairer nature nor where cast | E |
| On the clear mirror of thine own young truth | F |
| The imaged things of Heaven lie plainer glassed | E |
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| Nor where more fit alike show tender ruth | F |
| And anger for the right and hopes aglow | G |
| And joy and sighs of April hearted youth | F |
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| But some day I so wont to praise thee so | G |
| With unabashed warm words for all to hear | H |
| Shall scarcely name another speaking low | G |
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| Some day methinks and who can tell how near | I |
| I may to thee unchanged be praising thee | J |
| With one not worthier but a world more dear | I |
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| With one I know not yet who shall maybe | J |
| Be not so fair be not in aught thy peer | I |
| Who shall be all that thou art not to me | J |
Augusta Davies Webster
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