Sonnets (1923) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB C B C D E D E F G F G H IJ K K J I L L J M N M O M AP Q Q P P Q Q P R N R N R IF N N F F N O F H R G S H G| VIII | A |
| Oh oh you will be sorry for that word | B |
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| Give back my book and take my kiss instead | C |
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| Was it my enemy or my friend I heard | B |
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| What a big book for such a little head | C |
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| Come I will show you now my newest hat | D |
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| And you may watch me purse my mouth and prink | E |
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| Oh I shall love you still and all of that | D |
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| I never again shall tell you what I think | E |
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| I shall be sweet and crafty soft and sly | F |
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| You will not catch me reading any more | G |
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| I shall be called a wife to pattern by | F |
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| And some day when you knock and push the door | G |
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| Some sane day not too bright and not too stormy | H |
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| I shall be gone and you may whistle for me IX | I |
| Here is a wound that never will heal I know | J |
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| Being wrought not of a dearness and a death | K |
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| But of a love turned ashes and the breath | K |
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| Gone out of beauty never again will grow | J |
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| The grass on that scarred acre though I sow | I |
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| Young seed there yearly and the sky bequeath | L |
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| Its friendly weathers down far underneath | L |
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| Shall be such bitterness of an old woe | J |
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| That April should be shattered by a gust | M |
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| That August should be levelled by a rain | N |
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| I can endure and that the lifted dust | M |
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| Of man should settle to the earth again | O |
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| But that a dream can die will be a thrust | M |
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| Between my ribs forever of hot pain XVIII | A |
| I being born a woman and distressed | P |
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| By all the needs and notions of my kind | Q |
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| Am urged by your propinquity to find | Q |
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| Your person fair and feel a certain zest | P |
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| To bear your body's weight upon my breast | P |
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| So subtly is the fume of life designed | Q |
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| To clarify the pulse and cloud the mind | Q |
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| And leave me once again undone possessed | P |
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| Think not for this however the poor treason | R |
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| Of my stout blood against my staggering brain | N |
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| I shall remember you with love or season | R |
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| My scorn with pity let me make it plain | N |
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| I find this frenzy insufficient reason | R |
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| For conversation when we meet again XIX | I |
| What lips my lips have kissed and where and why | F |
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| I have forgotten and what arms have lain | N |
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| Under my head till morning but the rain | N |
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| Is full of ghosts to night that tap and sigh | F |
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| Upon the glass and listen for reply | F |
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| And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain | N |
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| For unremembered lads that not again | O |
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| Will turn to me at midnight with a cry | F |
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| Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree | H |
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| Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one | R |
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| Yet knows its boughs more silent than before | G |
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| I cannot say what loves have come and gone | S |
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| I only know that summer sang in me | H |
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| A little while that in me sings no more | G |
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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