Love And Knowledge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACBA DEEFFD| THOUGH you and I so long have been so near | A |
| Have felt each other's heart beats hour by hour | B |
| Have watered plucked and trampled passion's flower | B |
| Have known so many days so very dear | A |
| Yet still through every hour of every year | A |
| We have sought to win and failed to win the dower | C |
| Of perfect insight and to gain the power | B |
| To see what we are and not what we appear | A |
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| Yet you desire such knowledge would possess | D |
| You say completion of love if that were won | E |
| Ah by it might not haply be undone | E |
| The little measure of joy we knew before | F |
| Though we should swear we loved each other more | F |
| How surely we should love each other less | D |
Edith Nesbit
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