For Thee Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBACCC DDEEDCCC FFGHFCCC IJKKICCC LLEELCCC MNOOPCCC QQRRQCCC OOSSOCCC TTUUTCCC QQQQQCCC| What woes are there | A |
| I would not choose to bear | A |
| For thy dear sake | B |
| Curses were blest the ache | B |
| Of sorrow's scourging and grief's crown of care | A |
| All pain were dear to me | C |
| But it must be | C |
| For thee | C |
| - | |
| A sun grown cold | D |
| Earth wrapped in vaporous fold | D |
| The corn flowers' head | E |
| Robbed of their blue and red | E |
| The buttercups and daisies of their gold | D |
| This could I choose to see | C |
| But it must be | C |
| For thee | C |
| - | |
| The notes unheard | F |
| Of lark and piping bird | F |
| Or else their songs | G |
| Replaced by harsher tongues | H |
| No voice to sing to me or speak a word | F |
| This too were joy to me | C |
| But it must be | C |
| For thee | C |
| - | |
| A life alone | I |
| One left with others gone | J |
| A mourning house | K |
| Where none moves but the mouse | K |
| Or knows the secret of its pale guests flown | I |
| Grief's tears were sweet to me | C |
| But it must be | C |
| For thee | C |
| - | |
| Night without sleep | L |
| Slow hours that halt and creep | L |
| A cheerless bed | E |
| Where Love nor lays his head | E |
| Nor looks with pity on blind eyes that weep | L |
| Watching were rest to me | C |
| But it must be | C |
| For thee | C |
| - | |
| Passion once sure | M |
| With vain expense grown poor | N |
| Cheeks ruddy white | O |
| Now crocussed with affright | O |
| And Love the guest all coldly shown the door | P |
| Love's loss were gain to me | C |
| But it must be | C |
| For thee | C |
| - | |
| Glory forsworn | Q |
| The World's praise changed to scorn | Q |
| Silence of friends | R |
| Foes gaining all their ends | R |
| Through fault of fortune and my sword undrawn | Q |
| Hatred were love to me | C |
| But it must be | C |
| For thee | C |
| - | |
| Life's purpose vast | O |
| Turned to base ends and cast | O |
| On lines of ill | S |
| Which faltering downward still | S |
| Shall topple headlong to the gulf at last | O |
| Life's shame were pride to me | C |
| But it must be | C |
| For thee | C |
| - | |
| A guarded cell | T |
| Where crime and madness dwell | T |
| Where murder creeps | U |
| And maniac laughter weeps | U |
| With the undying worm for last farewell | T |
| There let me die sad me | C |
| But it must be | C |
| For thee | C |
| - | |
| O Soul of mine | Q |
| Thou wert a thing divine | Q |
| But made in vain | Q |
| Then be thou broke in twain | Q |
| And spilled upon time's empty sands like wine | Q |
| My soul no Heaven would see | C |
| But it must be | C |
| For thee | C |
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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