Let Love Go, If Go She Will Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDCEEFFGGHHIIJ DCJKLKMLET love go if go she will | A |
Seek not O fool her wanton flight to stay | B |
Of all she gives and takes away | B |
The best remains behind her still | A |
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The best remains behind in vain | C |
Joy she may give and take again | D |
Joy she may take and leave us pain | C |
If yet she leave behind | E |
The constant mind | E |
To meet all fortunes nobly to endure | F |
All things with a good heart and still be pure | F |
Still to be foremost in the foremost cause | G |
And still be worthy of the love that was | G |
Love coming is omnipotent indeed | H |
But not Love going Let her go The seed | H |
Springs in the favouring Summer air and grows | I |
And waxes strong and when the Summer goes | I |
Remains a perfect tree | J |
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Joy she may give and take again | D |
Joy she may take and leave us pain | C |
O Love and what care we | J |
For one thing thou hast given O Love one thing | K |
Is ours that nothing can remove | L |
And as the King discrowned is still a King | K |
The unhappy lover still preserves his love | M |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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