Sonnet 14 - If Thou Must Love Me, Let It Be For Nought Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBBCBDEDEDB| XIV | A |
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| If thou must love me let it be for nought | B |
| Except for love's sake only Do not say | C |
| 'I love her for her smile her look her way | C |
| Of speaking gently for a trick of thought | B |
| That falls in well with mine and certes brought | B |
| A sense of pleasant ease on such a day' | B |
| For these things in themselves Beloved may | C |
| Be changed or change for thee and love so wrought | B |
| May be unwrought so Neither love me for | D |
| Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry | E |
| A creature might forget to weep who bore | D |
| Thy comfort long and lose thy love thereby | E |
| But love me for love's sake that evermore | D |
| Thou mayst love on through love's eternity | B |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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