I, Being Born A Woman And Distressed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDCDCE| I being born a woman and distressed | A |
| By all the needs and notions of my kind | B |
| Am urged by your propinquity to find | B |
| Your person fair and feel a certain zest | A |
| To bear your body's weight upon my breast | A |
| So subtly is the fume of life designed | B |
| To clarify the pulse and cloud the mind | B |
| And leave me once again undone possessed | A |
| Think not for this however the poor treason | C |
| Of my stout blood against my staggering brain | D |
| I shall remember you with love or season | C |
| My scorn wtih pity let me make it plain | D |
| I find this frenzy insufficient reason | C |
| For conversation when we meet again | E |
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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