I Have Never Loved You Yet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC DDEE FFGG HHII JJGG A| I have never loved you yet if now I love | A |
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| If Love was born in that bright April sky | B |
| And ran unheeding when the sun was high | B |
| And slept as the moon sleeps through Autumn nights | C |
| While those dear steady stars burn in their heights | C |
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| If Love so lived and ran and slept and woke | D |
| And ran in beauty when each morning broke | D |
| Love yet was boylike fervid and unstable | E |
| Teased with romance not knowing truth from fable | E |
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| But Winter after Autumn comes and stills | F |
| The petulant waters and the wild mind fills | F |
| With silence and the dark and cold are bitter | G |
| O bitter to remember past days sweeter | G |
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| Then Spring with one warm cloudy finger breaks | H |
| The frost and the heart's airless black soil shakes | H |
| Love grown a man uprises serious bright | I |
| With mind remembering now things dark and light | I |
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| O if young Love was beautiful Love grown old | J |
| Experienced and grave is not grown cold | J |
| Life's faithful fire in Love's heart burns the clearer | G |
| With all that was is and draws darkling nearer | G |
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| I have never loved you yet if now I love | A |
John Freeman
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