We Talk Of Taxes, And I Call You Friend Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACCCCCC| We talk of taxes and I call you friend | A |
| Well such you are but well enough we know | B |
| How thick about us root how rankly grow | B |
| Those subtle weeds no man has need to tend | A |
| That flourish through neglect and soon must send | A |
| Perfume too sweet upon us and overthrow | B |
| Our steady senses how such matters go | B |
| We are aware and how such matters end | A |
| Yet shall be told no meagre passion here | C |
| With lovers such as we forevermore | C |
| Isolde drinks the draught and Guinevere | C |
| Receives the Table's ruin through her door | C |
| Francesca with the loud surf at her ear | C |
| Lets fall the colored book upon the floor | C |
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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