Modern Love Xxix: Am I Failing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDCEFFEGHHG| Am I failing For no longer can I cast | A |
| A glory round about this head of gold | B |
| Glory she wears but springing from the mould | B |
| Not like the consecration of the Past | A |
| Is my soul beggared Something more than earth | C |
| I cry for still I cannot be at peace | D |
| In having Love upon a' mortal lease | D |
| I cannot take the woman at her worth | C |
| Where is the ancient wealth wherewith I clothed | E |
| Our human nakedness and could endow | F |
| With spiritual splendour a white brow | F |
| That else had grinned at me the fact I loathed | E |
| A kiss is but a kiss now and no wave | G |
| Of a great flood that whirls me to the sea | H |
| But as you will we'll sit contentedly | H |
| And eat our pot of honey on the grave | G |
George Meredith
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