Modern Love X: But Where Began The Change Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDECBFFBGHHG| But where began the change and what's my crime | A |
| The wretch condemned who has not been arraigned | B |
| Chafes at his sentence Shall I unsustained | B |
| Drag on Love's nerveless body thro' all time | A |
| I must have slept since now I wake Prepare | C |
| You lovers to know Love a thing of moods | D |
| Not like hard life of laws In Love's deep woods | E |
| I dreamt of loyal Life the offence is there | C |
| Love's jealous woods about the sun are curled | B |
| At least the sun far brighter there did beam | F |
| My crime is that the puppet of a dream | F |
| I plotted to be worthy of the world | B |
| Oh had I with my darling helped to mince | G |
| The facts of life you still had seen me go | H |
| With hindward feather and with forward toe | H |
| Her much adored delightful Fairy Prince | G |
George Meredith
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