If Only Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAADBAEFGFHE| If I might only love my God and die | A |
| But now He bids me love Him and live on | B |
| Now when the bloom of all my life is gone | C |
| The pleasant half of life has quite gone by | A |
| My tree of hope is lopped that spread so high | A |
| And I forget how summer glowed and shone | D |
| While autumn grips me with its fingers wan | B |
| And frets me with its fitful windy sigh | A |
| When autumn passes then must winter numb | E |
| And winter may not pass a weary while | F |
| But when it passes spring shall flower again | G |
| And in that spring who weepeth now shall smile | F |
| Yea they shall wax who now are on the wane | H |
| Yea they shall sing for love when Christ shall come | E |
Christina Rossetti
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