Not Even My Pride Shall Suffer Much Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEED FGEEHFCIJCA BA| Not even my pride shall suffer much | A |
| Not even my pride at all maybe | B |
| If this ill timed intemperate clutch | A |
| Be loosed by you and not by me | B |
| Will suffer I have been so true | C |
| A vestal to that only pride | D |
| Wet wood cannot extinguish nor | E |
| Sand nor its embers scattered for | E |
| See all these years it has not died | D |
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| And if indeed as I dare think | F |
| You cannot push this patient flame | G |
| By any breath your lungs could store | E |
| Even for a moment to the floor | E |
| To crawl there even for a moment crawl | H |
| What can you mix for me to drink | F |
| That shall deflect me What you do | C |
| Is either malice crude defense | I |
| Of ego or indifference | J |
| I know these things as well as you | C |
| You do not dazzle me at all mdash | A |
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| Some love and some simplicity | B |
| Might well have been the death of me mdash | A |
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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