Modern Love Xix: No State Is Enviable Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDCEFGEHIIH| No state is enviable To the luck alone | A |
| Of some few favoured men I would put claim | B |
| I bleed but her who wounds I will not blame | B |
| Have I not felt her heart as 'twere my own | A |
| Beat thro' me could I hurt her heaven and hell | C |
| But I could hurt her cruelly Can I let | D |
| My Love's old time piece to another set | D |
| Swear it can't stop and must for ever swell | C |
| Sure that's one way Love drifts into the mart | E |
| Where goat legged buyers throng I see not plain | F |
| My meaning is it must not be again | G |
| Great God the maddest gambler throws his heart | E |
| If any state be enviable on earth | H |
| 'Tis yon born idiot's who as days go by | I |
| Still rubs his hands before him like a fly | I |
| In a queer sort of meditative mirth | H |
George Meredith
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