Modern Love Xl: I Bade My Lady Think Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCBBCDEEDECCE| I bade my Lady think what she might mean | A |
| Know I my meaning I Can I love one | B |
| And yet be jealous of another None | B |
| Commits such folly Terrible Love I ween | B |
| Has might even dead half sighing to upheave | C |
| The lightless seas of selfishness amain | B |
| Seas that in a man's heart have no rain | B |
| To fall and still them Peace can I achieve | C |
| By turning to this fountain source of woe | D |
| This woman who's to Love as fire to wood | E |
| She breathed the violet breath of maidenhood | E |
| Against my kisses once but I say No | D |
| The thing is mocked at Helplessly afloat | E |
| I know not what I do whereto I strive | C |
| The dread that my old love may be alive | C |
| Has seized my nursling new love by the throat | E |
George Meredith
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