Sonnet Xxxvii: Pardon, Oh, Pardon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDCECE| Pardon oh pardon that my soul should make | A |
| Of all that strong divineness which I know | B |
| For thine and thee an image only so | B |
| Formed of the sand and fit to shift and break | A |
| It is that distant years which did not take | A |
| Thy sovranty recoiling with a blow | B |
| Have forced my swimming brain to undergo | B |
| Their doubt and dread and blindly to forsake | A |
| Thy purity of likeness and distort | C |
| Thy worthiest love to a worthless counterfeit | D |
| As if a shipwrecked Pagan safe in port | C |
| His guardian sea god to commemorate | E |
| Should set a sculptured porpoise gills a snort | C |
| And vibrant tail within the temple gate | E |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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