And Do You Think That Love Itself Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEFEFGHG IJI JH KHL DBB| And do you think that love itself | A |
| Living in such an ugly house | B |
| Can prosper long | C |
| We meet and part | D |
| Our talk is all of heres and nows | B |
| Our conduct likewise in no act | E |
| Is any future any past | F |
| Under our sly unspoken pact | E |
| I KNOW with whom I saw you last | F |
| But I say nothing and you know | G |
| At six fifteen to whom I go mdash | H |
| Can even love be treated so | G |
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| I KNOW but I do not insist | I |
| Having stealth and tact thought not enough | J |
| What hour your eye is on your wrist | I |
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| No wild appeal no mild rebuff | J |
| Deflates the hour leaves the wine flat mdash | H |
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| Yet if YOU drop the picked up book | K |
| To intercept my clockward look mdash | H |
| Tell me can love go on like that | L |
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| Even the bored insulted heart | D |
| That signed so long and tight a lease | B |
| Can BREAK it CONTRACT slump in peace | B |
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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