I Do But Ask That You Be Always Fair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEDFGFGFF| I do but ask that you be always fair | A |
| That I forever may continue kind | B |
| Knowing me what I am you should not dare | A |
| To lapse from beauty ever nor seek to bind | B |
| My alterable mood with lesser cords | C |
| Weeping and such soft matters must invite | D |
| To further vagrancy and bitter words | E |
| Chafe soon to irremediable flight | D |
| Wherefore I pray you if you love me dearly | F |
| Less dear to hold me than your own bright charms | G |
| Whence it may fall that until death or nearly | F |
| I shall not move to struggle from your arms | G |
| Fade if you must I would but bid you be | F |
| Like the sweet year doing all things graciously | F |
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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