Modern Love Xiii: I Play For Seasons, Not Eternities Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEEDFGGFHIIH| 'I play for Seasons not Eternities ' | A |
| Says Nature laughing on her way 'So must | B |
| All those whose stake is nothing more than dust ' | A |
| And lo she wins and of her harmonies | C |
| She is full sure Upon her dying rose | D |
| She drops a look of fondness and goes by | E |
| Scarce any retrospection in her eye | E |
| For she the laws of growth most deeply knows | D |
| Whose hands bear here a seed bag there an urn | F |
| Pledges she herself to aught 'twould mark her end | G |
| This lesson of our only visible friend | G |
| Can we not teach our foolish hearts to learn | F |
| Yes yes but oh our human rose is fair | H |
| Surpassingly Lose calmly Love's great bliss | I |
| When the renewed for ever of a kiss | I |
| Whirls life within the shower of loosened hair | H |
George Meredith
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