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