Can someone help me with the rhythmic pattern in the poem I loved you first by CHRISTINA ROSSETTI?
Like AABAB? I loved you first: but afterwards your love Outsoaring mine, sang such a loftier song As drowned the friendly cooings of my dove. Which ow
Like AABAB?
I loved you first: but afterwards your love
Outsoaring mine, sang such a loftier song
As drowned the friendly cooings of my dove.
Which owes the other most? my love was long,
And yours one moment seemed to wax more strong;
I loved and guessed at you, you construed me
And loved me for what might or might not be –
Nay, weights and measures do us both a wrong.
For verily love knows not ‘mine’ or ‘thine;’
With separate ‘I’ and ‘thou’ free love has done,
For one is both and both are one in love:
Rich love knows nought of ‘thine that is not mine;’
Both have the strength and both the length thereof,
Both of us, of the love which makes us one.
or:Like AABAB? I loved you first: but afterwards your love Outsoaring mine, sang such a loftier song As drowned the friendly cooings of my dove. Which owes the other most? my love was long, And yours one moment seemed to wax more strong; I loved and guessed at you, you construed me And loved me for what might or might not be \u2013 Nay, weights and measures do us both a wrong. For verily love knows not \u2018mine\u2019 or \u2018thine;\u2019 With separate \u2018I\u2019 and \u2018thou\u2019 free love has done, For one is both and both are one in love: Rich love knows nought of \u2018thine that is not mine;\u2019 Both have the strength and both the length thereof, Both of us, of the love which makes us one.
