Fontaine, Je Ne Boirai Pas De Ton Eau! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDABDEBFB GHBIBJJKB| I know I might have lived in such a way | A |
| As to have suffered only pain | B |
| Loving not man nor dog | C |
| Not money even feeling | D |
| Toothache perhaps but never more than an hour away | A |
| From skill and novocaine | B |
| Making no contacts dealing with life through Agents drinking | D |
| one cocktail betting two dollars wearing raincoats in the | E |
| rain | B |
| Betrayed at length by no one but the fog | F |
| Whispering to the wing of the plane | B |
| - | |
| Fountain I have cried to that unbubbling well I will not | G |
| drink of thy water Yet I thirst | H |
| For a mouthful of mdash not to swallow only to rinse my mouth in | B |
| mdash peace | I |
| And while the eyes of the past condemn | B |
| The eyes of the present narrow into assignation And mdash | J |
| worst mdash | J |
| The young are so old they are born with their fingers crossed | K |
| I shall get no help from them | B |
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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