The Test Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG BHBI JKLM NONO| Love has moods and I am cold | A |
| Very cold ofttimes to Thee | B |
| Fain to slip from Thy dear hold | A |
| To my follies and be free | B |
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| Yet I love Thou knowest all | C |
| I am Thine in heat and chill | D |
| Thou Thou hast my heart in thrall | C |
| All my life and all my will | D |
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| Thou Immortal Lover sure | E |
| Knowest the way that lovers have | F |
| Now so cold afraid unsure | E |
| Now afire with love and brave | G |
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| If I loved less it might be | B |
| That the way was smoother less | H |
| Of the heavenly joys for me | B |
| And the cast down bitterness | I |
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| I am cold be that Love's proof | J |
| And I burn the proof again | K |
| I would not be smooth but rough | L |
| Lest the smoother love should wane | M |
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| Give me earth or Heaven and yet | N |
| If it is Love's test to swing | O |
| 'Twixt the earth and Heaven still set | N |
| I I ask no other thing | O |
Katharine Tynan
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