In Love For Long Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDD EFEFGG HIHJKL LMLMMM NOPOAA QRSRMMM| I've been in love for long | A |
| With what I cannot tell | B |
| And will contrive a song | A |
| For the intangible | C |
| That has no mould or shape | D |
| From which there's no escape | D |
| - | |
| It is not even a name | E |
| Yet is all constancy | F |
| Tried or untried the same | E |
| It cannot part from me | F |
| A breath yet as still | G |
| As the established hill | G |
| - | |
| It is not any thing | H |
| And yet all being is | I |
| Being being being | H |
| Its burden and its bliss | J |
| How can I ever prove | K |
| What it is I love | L |
| - | |
| This happy happy love | L |
| Is sieged with crying sorrows | M |
| Crushed beneath and above | L |
| Between todays and morrows | M |
| A little paradise | M |
| Held in the world's vice | M |
| - | |
| And there it is content | N |
| And careless as a child | O |
| And in imprisonment | P |
| Flourishes sweet and wild | O |
| In wrong beyond wrong | A |
| All the world's day long | A |
| - | |
| This love a moment known | Q |
| For what I do not know | R |
| And in a moment gone | S |
| Is like the happy doe | R |
| That keeps its perfect laws | M |
| Between the tiger's paws | M |
| And vindicates its cause | M |
Edwin Muir
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