Betrothed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGHHE IJKLMN OICP QRC| You have put your two hands upon me and your mouth | A |
| You have said my name as a prayer | B |
| Here where trees are planted by the water | C |
| I have watched your eyes cleansed from regret | D |
| And your lips closed over all that love cannot say | E |
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| My mother remembers the agony of her womb | F |
| And long years that seemed to promise more than this | G |
| She says You do not love me | H |
| You do not want me | H |
| You will go away | E |
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| In the country whereto I go | I |
| I shall not see the face of my friend | J |
| Nor her hair the color of sunburnt grasses | K |
| Together we shall not find | L |
| The land on whose hills bends the new moon | M |
| In air traversed of birds | N |
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| What have I thought of love | O |
| I have said It is beauty and sorrow | I |
| I have thought that it would bring me lost delights and splendor | C |
| As a wind out of old time | P |
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| But there is only the evening here | Q |
| And the sound of willows | R |
| Now and again dipping their long oval leaves in the water | C |
Louise Bogan
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