I Love You, But A Sense Of Pain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IJKK LLMM IANN| I love you but a sense of pain | A |
| Is in my heart and in my brain | A |
| Now when your voice and eyes are kind | B |
| May I reveal my complex mind | B |
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| Though I am yours it is my curse | C |
| Some ideal passion to rehearse | C |
| I dream of one that's not like you | D |
| Never of one that's half so true | D |
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| To quell these yearnings vague and wild | E |
| I often kneel by our dear child | E |
| In still dark nights you are asleep | F |
| And hold his hands and try to weep | F |
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| I cannot weep I cannot pray | G |
| Why grow so pale and turn away | G |
| Do you expect to hold me fast | H |
| By pretty legends in the past | H |
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| It is a woman's province then | I |
| To be content with what has been | J |
| To wear the wreath of withered flowers | K |
| That crowned her in the bridal hours | K |
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| Still I am yours this idle strife | L |
| Stirs but the surface of my life | L |
| And if you would but ask once more | M |
| How goes the heart or at the door | M |
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| Imploring stand and knock again | I |
| I might forget this sense of pain | A |
| And down oblivion's sullen stream | N |
| Would float the memory of my dream | N |
Elizabeth Stoddard
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