And You As Well Must Die, Belovèd Dust Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACBBCDEFDDE| And you as well must die belov d dust | A |
| And all your beauty stand you in no stead | B |
| This flawless vital hand this perfect head | B |
| This body of flame and steel before the gust | A |
| Of Death or under his autumnal frost | C |
| Shall be as any leaf be no less dead | B |
| Than the first leaf that fell this wonder fled | B |
| Altered estranged disintegrated lost | C |
| Nor shall my love avail you in your hour | D |
| In spite of all my love you will arise | E |
| Upon that day and wander down the air | F |
| Obscurely as the unattended flower | D |
| It mattering not how beautiful you were | D |
| Or how belov d above all else that dies | E |
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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