The Imperfect Lover Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBD EBFGH IJKLM NOPEQBR BBSTE UEV| I never asked you to be perfect did I | A |
| Though often I've called you sweet in the invasion | B |
| Of mastering love I never prayed that you | C |
| Might stand unsoiled angelic and inhuman | B |
| Pointing the way toward Sainthood like a sign post | D |
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| Oh yes I know the way to heaven was easy | E |
| We found the little kingdom of our passion | B |
| That all can share who walk the road of lovers | F |
| In wild and secret happiness we stumbled | G |
| And gods and demons clamoured in our senses | H |
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| But I've grown thoughtful now And you have lost | I |
| Your early morning freshness of surprise | J |
| At being so utterly mine you've learned to fear | K |
| The gloomy stricken places in my soul | L |
| And the occasional ghosts that haunt my gaze | M |
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| You made me glad and I can still return | N |
| To you the haven of my lonely pride | O |
| But I am sworn to murder those illusions | P |
| That blossom from desire with desperate beauty | E |
| And there shall be no falsehood in our failure | Q |
| Since if we loved like beasts the thing is done | B |
| And I'll not hide it though our heaven be hell | R |
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| You dream long liturgies of our devotion | B |
| Yet in my heart I dread our love's destruction | B |
| But should you grow to hate me I would ask | S |
| No mercy of your mood I'd have you stand | T |
| And look me in the eyes and laugh and smite me | E |
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| Then I should know at least that truth endured | U |
| Though love had died of wounds And you could leave me | E |
| Unvanquished in my atmosphere of devils | V |
Siegfried Sassoon
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