Persuasion. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDCECEFF| Still must your hands withhold your loveliness | A |
| Is your soul jealous of your body still | B |
| The fair white limbs beneath the clouding dress | A |
| Are such hard forms as you alone could fill | B |
| With life and sweetness Such a harmony | C |
| Is yours as music and the thought expressed | D |
| By the musician have no rivalry | C |
| Between your soul and the shape in which it's drest | D |
| Kisses or words both sensual which shall be | C |
| The burning symbol of the love we bear | E |
| My art is words yours song but still must we | C |
| Be mute and songless seeing how love is fair | E |
| Both our known arts being useless we must turn | F |
| To love himself and his old practice learn | F |
Edward Shanks
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