Sonnet (women Have Loved Before As I Love Now) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDEFGFGHHWomen have loved before as I love now | A |
At least in lively chronicles of the past mdash | B |
Of Irish waters by a Cornish prow | A |
Or Trojan waters by a Spartan mast | C |
Much to their cost invaded mdash here and there | D |
Hunting the amorous line skimming the rest | E |
I find some woman bearing as I bear | D |
Love like a burning city in the breast | E |
I think however that of all alive | F |
I only in such utter ancient way | G |
Do suffer love in me alone survive | F |
The unregenerate passions of a day | G |
When treacherous queens with death upon the tread | H |
Heedless and willful took their knights to bed | H |
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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