Ribb Considers Christian Love Insufficient Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCDEEFGGFHHIJJKLM NOOP| Why should I seek for love or study it | A |
| It is of God and passes human wit | A |
| I study hatred with great diligence | B |
| For that's a passion in my own control | C |
| A sort of besom that can clear the soul | C |
| Of everything that is not mind or sense | D |
| Why do I hate man woman Or event | E |
| That is a light my jealous soul has sent | E |
| From terror and deception freed it can | F |
| Discover impurities can show at last | G |
| How soul may walk when all such things are past | G |
| How soul could walk before such things began | F |
| Then my delivered soul herself shall learn | H |
| A darker knowledge and in hatred turn | H |
| From every thought of God mankind has had | I |
| Thought is a garment and the soul's a bride | J |
| That cannot in that trash and tinsel hide | J |
| Hatred of God may bring the soul to God | K |
| At stroke of midnight soul cannot endure | L |
| A bodily or mental furniture | M |
| What can she take until her Master give | N |
| Where can she look until He make the show | O |
| What can she know until He bid her know | O |
| How can she live till in her blood He live | P |
William Butler Yeats
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