Modern Love Xxviii: I Must Be Flattered Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADEEDFGGFHIIH| I must be flattered The imperious | A |
| Desire speaks out Lady I am content | B |
| To play with you the game of Sentiment | C |
| And with you enter on paths perilous | A |
| But if across your beauty I throw light | D |
| To make it threefold it must be all mine | E |
| First secret then avowed For I must shine | E |
| Envied I lessened in my proper sight | D |
| Be watchful of your beauty Lady dear | F |
| How much hangs on that lamp you cannot tell | G |
| Most earnestly I pray you tend it well | G |
| And men shall see me as a burning sphere | F |
| And men shall mark you eyeing me and groan | H |
| To be the God of such a grand sunflower | I |
| I feel the promptings of Satanic power | I |
| While you do homage unto me alone | H |
George Meredith
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