The More Loving One Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFF GGHH| Looking up at the stars I know quite well | A |
| That for all they care I can go to hell | A |
| But on earth indifference is the least | B |
| We have to dread from man or beast | B |
| How should we like it were stars to burn | C |
| With a passion for us we could not return | C |
| If equal affection cannot be | D |
| Let the more loving one be me | D |
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| Admirer as I think I am | E |
| Of stars that do not give a damn | E |
| I cannot now I see them say | F |
| I missed one terribly all day | F |
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| Were all stars to disappear or die | G |
| I should learn to look at an empty sky | G |
| And feel its total dark sublime | H |
| Though this might take me a little time | H |
W. H. Auden
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