Sonnet Xlii: Oh! Canst Thou Bear Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDEDCD| Oh can'st thou bear to see this faded frame | A |
| Deform'd and mangled by the rocky deep | B |
| Wilt thou remember and forbear to weep | B |
| My fatal fondness and my peerless fame | A |
| Soon o'er this heart now warm with passion's flame | A |
| The howling winds and foamy waves shall sweep | B |
| Those eyes be ever clos'd in death's cold sleep | B |
| And all of Sappho perish but her name | A |
| Yet if the Fates suspend their barb'rous ire | C |
| If days less mournful Heav'n designs for me | D |
| If rocks grow kind and winds and waves conspire | E |
| To bear me softly on the swelling sea | D |
| To Phoebus only will I tune my Lyre | C |
| What suits with Sappho Phoebus suits with thee | D |
Mary Darby Robinson
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