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I Cannot Love Thee! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I CANNOT love thee tho' thy soul	A
Be one which all good thoughts control	A
Altho' thy eyes be starry bright	B
And the gleams of golden light	B
Fall upon thy silken hair	C
And thy forehead broad and fair	C
Something of a cold disgust	D
Wonderful and most unjust	D
Something of a sullen fear	E
Weighs my heart when thou art near	E
And my soul which cannot twine	F
Thought or sympathy with thine	F
With a coward instinct tries	G
To hide from thy enamour'd eyes	G
Wishing for a sudden blindness	H
To escape those looks of kindness	H
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Sad she folds her shivering wings	I
From the love thy spirit brings	I
Like a chain d thing caress'd	J
By the hand it knows the best	J
By the hand which day by day	K
Visits its imprison'd stay	K
Bringing gifts of fruit and blossom	L
From the green earth's plenteous bosom	L
All but that for which it pines	M
In those narrow close confines	M
With a sad and ceaseless sigh	N
Wild and wing d Liberty	O
	-
Can it be no instinct dwells	P
In th' immortal soul which tells	P
That thy love oh human brother	Q
Is unwelcome to another	Q
Can the changeful wavering eye	N
Raised to thine in forced reply	N
Can the cold constrain d smile	R
Shrinking from thee all the while	R
Satisfy thy heart or prove	S
Such a likeness of true love	T
	-
Seems to me that I should guess	U
By what a world of bitterness	H
By what a gulf of hopeless care	C
Our two hearts divided were	Q
Seems to me that I should know	V
All the dread that lurk'd below	V
By want of answer found	W
In the voice's trembling sound	W
By the unresponsive gaze	X
By the smile which vainly plays	X
In whose cold imperfect birth	Y
Glows no fondness lives no mirth	Y
By the sigh whose different tone	Z
Hath no echo of thine own	Z
By the hand's cold clasp which still	A2
Held as not of its free will	A2
Shrinks as it for freedom yearn'd	B2
That my love was unreturn'd	B2
	-
When thy tongue ah woe is me	O
Whispers love vows tenderly	O
Mine is shaping all unheard	B2
Fragments of some withering word	B2
	-
Which by its complete farewell	C2
Shall divide us like a spell	C2
And my heart beats loud and fast	B2
Wishing that confession past	B2
And the tide of anguish rises	D2
Till its strength my soul surprises	E2
And the reckless words unspoken	F2
Nearly have the silence broken	F2
With a gush like some wild river	Q
'Oh depart depart for ever '	-
	-
But my faltering courage fails	G2
And my drooping spirit quails	G2
So sweet earnest looks thy smile	R
Full of tenderness the while	R
And with such strange pow'r are gifted	B2
The eyes to which my own are lifted	B2
So my faint heart dies away	K
And my lip can nothing say	K
And I long to be alone	Z
For I weep when thou are gone	H2
	-
Yes I weep but then my soul	A
Free to ponder o'er the whole	A
Free from fears which check'd its thought	B2
And the pain thy presence brought	B2
Whispers me the useless lie	N
'For thy love he will not die	N
Such pity is but vanity '	-
And I bend my weary head	B2
O'er the tablets open spread	B2
Whose fair pages me invite	B2
All I dared not say to write	B2
And my fingers take the pen	I2
And my heart feels braced again	I2
With a resolute intent	B2
But ere yet that page be sent	B2
Once I view the written words	J2
Which must break thy true heart's chords	K2
And a vision piercing bright	B2
Rises on my coward sight	B2
Of thy fond hand gladly taking	L2
What must set thy bosom aching	L2
While too soon the brittle seal	M2
Bids the page the worst reveal	M2
Blending in thy eager gaze	X
Scorn and anguish and amaze	X
	-
Powerless then my hand reposes	X
On the tablet which it closes	X
With a cold and shivering sense	X
Born of Truth's omnipotence	X
And my weeping blots the leaves	X
And my sinking spirit grieves	X
Humbled in that bitter hour	Q
By the very consciousness of power	Q
What am I that I should be	O
Such a source of woe to thee	O
What am I that I should dare	C
Thus to play with thy despair	C
And persuade myself that thou	N2
Wilt not bend beneath the blow	V
	-
Rather should my conscience move	S
Me to think of this vain love	T
Which my life of peace beguiles	X
As a tax on foolish smiles	X
Which like light not meant for one	F2
Who wandering in the dark alone	Z
Hath yet been tempted by its ray	K
To turn aside and lose his way	K
Binds me by their careless sin	O2
To take the misled wanderer in	O2
	-
And I praise thee as I go	V
Wandering weary full of woe	V
To my own unwilling heart	B2
Cheating it to take thy part	B2
By rehearsing each rare merit	B2
Which thy nature doth inherit	B2
To myself their list I give	P2
Most prosaic positive	P2
How thy heart is good and true	Q2
And thy face most fair to view	Q2
How the powers of thy mind	B2
Flatterers in the wisest find	B2
And the talents God hath given	F2
Seem as held in trust for Heaven	F2
Labouring on for noble ends	X
Steady to thy boyhood's friends	X
Slow to give or take offence	X
Full of earnest eloquence	X
Hopeful eager gay of cheer	E
Frank in all thy dealings here	R2
	-
Ready to redress the wrong	S2
Of the weak against the strong	S2
Keeping up an honest pride	B2
With those the world hath deified	B2
But gently bending heart and brow	N2
To the helpless and the low	V
How in brief there dwells in thee	O
All tht's generous and free	O
All that may most aptly move	S
My Spirit to an answering love	T
	-
But in vain the tale is told	B2
Still my heart lies dead and cold	B2
Still it wanders and rebels	X
From the thought that thus compels	X
And refuses to rejoice	X
Save in unconstrain emacr d choice	X
	-
Therefore when thine eyes shall read	B2
This my book oh take thou heed	B2
In the dim lines written here	R2
All shall be explained and clear	E
	-
All my lips could never speak	T2
When my heart grew coward weak	T2
All my hand could never write	B2
Tho' I planned it day and night	B2
All shall be at length confest	B2
And thou'lt forgive and let me rest	B2
None but thou and I shall know	V
Whose the doom and whose the woe	V
None but thou and I shall share	C
In the secret printed there	C
It shall be a secret still	A2
Tho' all look on it at will	A2
And the eye shall read in vain	U2
What the heart cannot explain	U2
Each one baffled in his turn	V2
Shall no more its aim discern	V2
Than a wanderer who might look	W2
On some wizard's magic book	W2
Of the darkly worded spell	C2
Where deep hidden meanings dwell	C2
Memory fancy they shall task	X2
This sad riddle to unmask	X2
Or with bold conjectural fame	Y2
Fit the pages with a name	Y2
	-
But nothing shall they understand	B2
And vainly shall the stanger's hand	B2
Essay to fling the leaves apart	B2
Which bear MY message to THY heart	B2