Sonnet 01 - I Thought Once How Theocritus Had Sung Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBDCBEFEGE| I | A |
| - | |
| I thought once how Theocritus had sung | B |
| Of the sweet years the dear and wished for years | C |
| Who each one in a gracious hand appears | C |
| To bear a gift for mortals old or young | B |
| And as I mused it in his antique tongue | B |
| I saw in gradual vision through my tears | D |
| The sweet sad years the melancholy years | C |
| Those of my own life who by turns had flung | B |
| A shadow across me Straightway I was 'ware | E |
| So weeping how a mystic Shape did move | F |
| Behind me and drew me backward by the hair | E |
| And a voice said in mastery while I strove | G |
| 'Guess now who holds thee ' ' Death ' I said But there | E |
| The silver answer rang ' Not Death but Love ' | - |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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