Sonnets From The Portuguese Xxxvii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDCECEPardon 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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