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