Modern Love Xlii: I Am To Follow Her Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDCEFFEGHHG| I am to follow her There is much grace | A |
| In woman when thus bent on martyrdom | B |
| They think that dignity of soul may come | B |
| Perchance with dignity of body Base | A |
| But I was taken by that air of cold | C |
| And statuesque sedateness when she said | D |
| 'I'm going' lit a taper bowed her head | D |
| And went as with the stride of Pallas bold | C |
| Fleshly indifference horrible The hands | E |
| Of Time now signal O she's safe from me | F |
| Within those secret walls what do I see | F |
| Where first she set the taper down she stands | E |
| Not Pallas Hebe shamed Thoughts black as death | G |
| Like a stirred pool in sunshine break Her wrists | H |
| I catch she faltering as she half resists | H |
| 'You love love love ' all on an in drawn breath | G |
George Meredith
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