Sonnet 09 - Can It Be Right To Give What I Can Give? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BAABBAABCACACA| IX | A |
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| Can it be right to give what I can give | B |
| To let thee sit beneath the fall of tears | A |
| As salt as mine and hear the sighing years | A |
| Re sighing on my lips renunciative | B |
| Through those infrequent smiles which fail to live | B |
| For all thy adjurations O my fears | A |
| That this can scarce be right We are not peers | A |
| So to be lovers and I own and grieve | B |
| That givers of such gifts as mine are must | C |
| Be counted with the ungenerous Out alas | A |
| I will not soil thy purple with my dust | C |
| Nor breathe my poison on thy Venice glass | A |
| Nor give thee any love which were unjust | C |
| Beloved I only love thee let it pass | A |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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