Discretion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACC DEFGG HIHJJ ACABB KLKLL MFMFF| AH turn your pretty eyes away | A |
| You would not have me love again | B |
| Love's pleasure does not live a day | A |
| Immortal is Love's pain | C |
| And I am tired of pain | C |
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| I have loved once aye once or twice | D |
| The pleasure died the pain lives here | E |
| I will not look in your sweet eyes | F |
| I will not love you Dear | G |
| Lest you should grow too dear | G |
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| For I am weary and afraid | H |
| Have I not seen why life was fair | I |
| And known how good a world God made | H |
| How sweet the blossoms were | J |
| How dear the green fields were | J |
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| And I have found how life was gray | A |
| A mist hung road a quest in vain | C |
| Until once more Love smiled my way | A |
| And fooled me once again | B |
| And taught me grief again | B |
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| Now I will gather no more grief | K |
| I only ask to see the sky | L |
| The budding flower the budding leaf | K |
| And put old dreamings by | L |
| The dreams Love tortures by | L |
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| For being wise I love no more | M |
| You if you will snare with those eyes | F |
| Some fool who never loved before | M |
| And teach him to be wise | F |
| For why should you be wise | F |
Edith Nesbit
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