To Be In Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGGHIIJKELFMNKI MOPQRSKTLLUJ V| To be in love | A |
| Is to touch with a lighter hand | B |
| In yourself you stretch you are well | C |
| You look at things | D |
| Through his eyes | E |
| A cardinal is red | F |
| A sky is blue | G |
| Suddenly you know he knows too | G |
| He is not there but | H |
| You know you are tasting together | I |
| The winter or a light spring weather | I |
| His hand to take your hand is overmuch | J |
| Too much to bear | K |
| You cannot look in his eyes | E |
| Because your pulse must not say | L |
| What must not be said | F |
| When he | M |
| Shuts a door | N |
| Is not there | K |
| Your arms are water | I |
| And you are free | M |
| With a ghastly freedom | O |
| You are the beautiful half | P |
| Of a golden hurt | Q |
| You remember and covet his mouth | R |
| To touch to whisper on | S |
| Oh when to declare | K |
| Is certain Death | T |
| Oh when to apprize | L |
| Is to mesmerize | L |
| To see fall down the Column of Gold | U |
| Into the commonest ash | J |
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| Anonymous submission | V |
Gwendolyn Brooks
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