Modern Love I: By This He Knew She Wept Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDCEFFGHIIH| By this he knew she wept with waking eyes | A |
| That at his hand's light quiver by her head | B |
| The strange low sobs that shook their common bed | B |
| Were called into her with a sharp surprise | A |
| And strangled mute like little gaping snakes | C |
| Dreadfully venomous to him She lay | D |
| Stone still and the long darkness flowed away | D |
| With muffled pulses Then as midnight makes | C |
| Her giant heart of Memory and Tears | E |
| Drink the pale drug of silence and so beat | F |
| Sleep's heavy measure they from head to feet | F |
| Were moveless looking through their dead black years | G |
| By vain regret scrawled over the blank wall | H |
| Like sculptured effigies they might be seen | I |
| Upon their marriage tomb the sword between | I |
| Each wishing for the sword that severs all | H |
George Meredith
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