Modern Love Xlviii: Their Sense Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDCEFFEGHHG| Their sense is with their senses all mixed in | A |
| Destroyed by subleties these women are | B |
| More brain O Lord more brain or we shall mar | B |
| Utterly this fair garden we might win | A |
| Behold I looked for peace and thought it near | C |
| Our inmost hearts had opened each to each | D |
| We drank the pure daylight of honest speech | D |
| Alas I that was the fatal draught I fear | C |
| For when of my lost Lady came the word | E |
| This woman O this agony of flesh | F |
| Jealous devotion bade her break the mesh | F |
| That I might seek that other like a bird | E |
| I do adore the nobleness despise | G |
| The act She has gone forth I know not where | H |
| Will the hard world my sentience of her share | H |
| I feel the truth so let the world surmise | G |
George Meredith
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