Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: Xxi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEGHH| If I have since done evil in my life | A |
| I was not born for evil This I know | B |
| My soul was a thing pure from sensual strife | A |
| No vice of the blood foredoomed me to this woe | B |
| I did not love corruption Beauty truth | C |
| Justice compassion peace with God and man | D |
| These were my laws the instincts of my youth | C |
| And hold me still conceal it as I can | D |
| I did not love corruption nor do love | E |
| I find it ill to hate and ill to grieve | F |
| Nature designed me for a life above | E |
| The mere discordant dreams in which I live | G |
| If I now go a beggar on the Earth | H |
| I was a saint of Heaven by right of birth | H |
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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