I Live, I Die, I Burn, I Drown Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH DDI JKII live I die I burn I drown | A |
I endure at once chill and cold | B |
Life is at once too soft and too hard | C |
I have sore troubles mingled with joys | D |
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Suddenly I laugh and at the same time cry | E |
And in pleasure many a grief endure | F |
My happiness wanes and yet it lasts unchanged | G |
All at once I dry up and grow green | H |
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Thus I suffer love's inconstancies | D |
And when I think the pain is most intense | D |
Without thinking it is gone again | I |
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Then when I feel my joys certain | J |
And my hour of greatest delight arrived | K |
I find my pain beginning all over once again | I |
Delmira Agustini
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