Xiv Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAAABACDCDCAIf thou must love me let it be for nought | A |
Except for love's sake only Do not say | B |
'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' | A |
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 | C |
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry | D |
A creature might forget to weep who bore | C |
Thy comfort long and lose thy love thereby | D |
But love me for love's sake that evermore | C |
Thou mayst love on through love's eternity | A |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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