Sonnet 05: If I Should Learn, In Some Quite Casual Way Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEBEFBFGHHIf I should learn in some quite casual way | A |
That you were gone not to return again mdash | B |
Read from the back page of a paper say | A |
Held by a neighbor in a subway train | C |
How at the corner of this avenue | D |
And such a street so are the papers filled | E |
A hurrying man mdash who happened to be you mdash | B |
At noon to day had happened to be killed | E |
I should not cry aloud mdash I could not cry | F |
Aloud or wring my hands in such a place mdash | B |
I should but watch the station lights rush by | F |
With a more careful interest on my face | G |
Or raise my eyes and read with greater care | H |
Where to store furs and how to treat the hair | H |
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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