Modern Love Xliv: They Say That Pity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDCEFFEGHHG| They say that Pity in Love's service dwells | A |
| A porter at the rosy temple's gate | B |
| I missed him going but it is my fate | B |
| To come upon him now beside his wells | A |
| Whereby I know that I Love's temple leave | C |
| And that the purple doors have closed behind | D |
| Poor soul if in those early days unkind | D |
| Thy power to sting had been but power to grieve | C |
| We now might with an equal spirit meet | E |
| And not be matched like innocence and vice | F |
| She for the Temple's worship has paid price | F |
| And takes the coin of Pity as a cheat | E |
| She sees through simulation to the bone | G |
| What's best in her impels her to the worst | H |
| Never she cries shall Pity soothe Love's thirst | H |
| Or foul hypocrisy for truth atone | G |
George Meredith
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