[four Sonnets (1922)] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB A B A C D C D D E D E F AG H G H I J I J K L K L M AN O N O P Q R Q C I C I M NS T S T A N A N U V U V W W| I | A |
| Love though for this you riddle me with darts | B |
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| And drag me at your chariot till I die | A |
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| Oh heavy prince Oh panderer of hearts | B |
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| Yet hear me tell how in their throats they lie | A |
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| Who shout you mighty thick about my hair | C |
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| Day in day out your ominous arrows purr | D |
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| Who still am free unto no querulous care | C |
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| A fool and in no temple worshiper | D |
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| I that have bared me to your quiver's fire | D |
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| Lifted my face into its puny rain | E |
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| Do wreathe you Impotent to Evoke Desire | D |
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| As you are Powerless to Elicit Pain | E |
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| Now will the god for blasphemy so brave | F |
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| Punish me surely with the shaft I crave II | A |
| I think I should have loved you presently | G |
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| And given in earnest words I flung in jest | H |
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| And lifted honest eyes for you to see | G |
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| And caught your hand against my cheek and breast | H |
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| And all my pretty follies flung aside | I |
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| That won you to me and beneath your gaze | J |
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| Naked of reticence and shorn of pride | I |
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| Spread like a chart my little wicked ways | J |
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| I that had been to you had you remained | K |
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| But one more waking from a recurrent dream | L |
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| Cherish no less the certain stakes I gained | K |
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| And walk your memory's halls austere supreme | L |
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| A ghost in marble of a girl you knew | M |
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| Who would have loved you in a day or two III | A |
| Oh think not I am faithful to a vow | N |
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| Faithless am I save to love's self alone | O |
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| Were you not lovely I would leave you now | N |
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| After the feet of beauty fly my own | O |
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| Were you not still my hunger's rarest food | P |
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| And water ever to my wildest thirst | Q |
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| I would desert you think not but I would | R |
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| And seek another as I sought you first | Q |
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| But you are mobile as the veering air | C |
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| And all your charms more changeful than the tide | I |
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| Wherefore to be inconstant is no care | C |
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| I have but to continue at your side | I |
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| So wanton light and false my love are you | M |
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| I am most faithless when I most am true IV | N |
| I shall forget you presently my dear | S |
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| So make the most of this your little day | T |
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| Your little month your little half a year | S |
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| Ere I forget or die or move away | T |
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| And we are done forever by and by | A |
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| I shall forget you as I said but now | N |
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| If you entreat me with your loveliest lie | A |
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| I will protest you with my favorite vow | N |
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| I would indeed that love were longer lived | U |
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| And vows were not so brittle as they are | V |
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| But so it is and nature has contrived | U |
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| To struggle on without a break thus far | V |
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| Whether or not we find what we are seeking | W |
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| Is idle biologically speaking | W |
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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