Why He Loves Her Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAAABCDCDAAADEFEF CCCCCGCHIIIG| YOU ask me why I love her | A |
| As I love nought on earth | B |
| Why I'll put none above her | A |
| For sorrow or for mirth | B |
| Though there be others fairer | A |
| In spirit richer rarer | A |
| With none will I compare her | A |
| Who is to me all worth | B |
| I love her for her beauty | C |
| Her force her fire her youth | D |
| For kisses cold as duty | C |
| Bespeak not love but ruth | D |
| I love her for the treasure | A |
| Of all the rapturous pleasure | A |
| Her love gives without measure | A |
| Of passion and of truth | D |
| I love her firm possession | E |
| Of instincts fair and true | F |
| Her hatred of oppression | E |
| And all the wrong men do | F |
| Her fiery unflawed purity | C |
| Her spirit's proud security | C |
| Defying all futurity | C |
| And fate and fortune too | C |
| And O my love I love you | C |
| For where words faint and fall | G |
| Something in you above you | C |
| Some mystery magical | H |
| Some spell that's past concealing | I |
| Some influence past revealing | I |
| Some deeper depth than feeling | I |
| And life and death and all | G |
Francis William Lauderdale Adams
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