Sonnet 26 - I Lived With Visions For My Company Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCBDEFEFE| XXVI | A |
| - | |
| I lived with visions for my company | B |
| Instead of men and women years ago | C |
| And found them gentle mates nor thought to know | C |
| A sweeter music than they played to me | B |
| But soon their trailing purple was not free | B |
| Of this world's dust their lutes did silent grow | C |
| And I myself grew faint and blind below | C |
| Their vanishing eyes Then THOU didst come to be | B |
| Beloved what they seemed Their shining fronts | D |
| Their songs their splendors better yet the same | E |
| As river water hallowed into fonts | F |
| Met in thee and from out thee overcame | E |
| My soul with satisfaction of all wants | F |
| Because God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame | E |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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