Modern Love Ix: He Felt The Wild Beast Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDEDFGGFHIIH| He felt the wild beast in him betweenwhiles | A |
| So masterfully rude that he would grieve | B |
| To see the helpless delicate thing receive | B |
| His guardianship through certain dark defiles | A |
| Had he not teeth to rend and hunger too | C |
| But still he spared her Once 'Have you no fear ' | D |
| He said 'twas dusk she in his grasp none near | E |
| She laughed 'No surely am I not with you ' | D |
| And uttering that soft starry 'you ' she leaned | F |
| Her gentle body near him looking up | G |
| And from her eyes as from a poison cup | G |
| He drank until the flittering eyelids screened | F |
| Devilish malignant witch and oh young beam | H |
| Of heaven's circle glory Here thy shape | I |
| To squeeze like an intoxicating grape | I |
| I might and yet thou goest safe supreme | H |
George Meredith
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