Song In Spite Of Myself Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBCB DBDB EFEF| Never love with all your heart | A |
| It only ends in aching | B |
| And bit by bit to the smallest part | A |
| That organ will be breaking | B |
| - | |
| Never love with all your mind | C |
| It only ends in fretting | B |
| In musing on sweet joys behind | C |
| too poignant for forgetting | B |
| - | |
| Never love with all your soul | D |
| for such there is no ending | B |
| though a mind that frets may find control | D |
| and a shattered heart find mending | B |
| - | |
| Give but a grain of the heart's rich seed | E |
| Confine some undercover | F |
| And when love goes bid him God speed | E |
| and find another lover | F |
Countee Cullen
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