Modern Love Viii: Yet It Was Plain She Struggled Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDCEFFEGHHG| Yet it was plain she struggled and that salt | A |
| Of righteous feeling made her pitiful | B |
| Poor twisting worm so queenly beautiful | B |
| Where came the cleft between us whose the fault | A |
| My tears are on thee that have rarely dropped | C |
| As balm for any bitter wound of mine | D |
| My breast will open for thee at a sign | D |
| But no we are two reed pipes coarsely stopped | C |
| The God once filled them with his mellow breath | E |
| And they were music till he flung them down | F |
| Used used Hear now the discord loving clown | F |
| Puff his gross spirit in them worse than death | E |
| I do not know myself without thee more | G |
| In this unholy battle I grow base | H |
| If the same soul be under the same face | H |
| Speak and a taste of that old time restore | G |
George Meredith
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