The Concert Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEBFD AGHIAJKLMNN MMOPOBQOQ RISIT UVVBU| No I will go alone | A |
| I will come back when it's over | B |
| Yes of course I love you | C |
| No it will not be long | D |
| Why may you not come with me mdash | E |
| You are too much my lover | B |
| You would put yourself | F |
| Between me and song | D |
| - | |
| If I go alone | A |
| Quiet and suavely clothed | G |
| My body will die in its chair | H |
| And over my head a flame | I |
| A mind that is twice my own | A |
| Will mark with icy mirth | J |
| The wise advance and retreat | K |
| Of armies without a country | L |
| Storming a nameless gate | M |
| Hurling terrible javelins down | N |
| From the shouting walls of a singing town | N |
| - | |
| Where no women wait | M |
| Armies clean of love and hate | M |
| Marching lines of pitiless sound | O |
| Climbing hills to the sun and hurling | P |
| Golden spears to the ground | O |
| Up the lines a silver runner | B |
| Bearing a banner whereon is scored | Q |
| The milk and steel of a bloodless wound | O |
| Healed at length by the sword | Q |
| - | |
| You and I have nothing to do with music | R |
| We may not make of music a filigree frame | I |
| Within which you and I | S |
| Tenderly glad we came | I |
| Sit smiling hand in hand | T |
| - | |
| Come now be content | U |
| I will come back to you I swear I will | V |
| And you will know me still | V |
| I shall be only a little taller | B |
| Than when I went | U |
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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