Sonnet Xxxvi: Life-in-love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBCDEEDFF| Not in thy body is thy life at all | A |
| But in this lady's lips and hands and eyes | B |
| Through these she yields thee life that vivifies | B |
| What else were sorrow's servant and death's thrall | A |
| Look on thyself without her and recall | A |
| The waste remembrance and forlorn surmise | B |
| That lived but in a dead drawn breath of sighs | B |
| O'er vanished hours and hours eventual | C |
| Even so much life hath the poor tress of hair | D |
| Which stored apart is all love hath to show | E |
| For heart beats and for fire heats long ago | E |
| Even so much life endures unknown even where | D |
| 'Mid change the changeless night environeth | F |
| Lies all that golden hair undimmed in death | F |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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