Sonnet 05: If I Should Learn, In Some Quite Casual Way Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEBEFBFGHH| If 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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