Concealment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEFFGG HHIIJJGGGKK LLMMNNGGGO| No to what purpose should I speak | A |
| No wretched heart swell till you break | B |
| She cannot love me if she would | C |
| And to say truth 'twere pity that she should | C |
| No to the grave thy sorrows bear | D |
| As silent as they will be there | D |
| Since that lov'd hand this mortal wound does give | E |
| So handsomely the thing contrive | F |
| That she may guiltless of it live | F |
| So perish that her killing thee | G |
| May a chance medley and no murder be | G |
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| 'Tis nobler much for me that I | H |
| By her beauty not her anger die | H |
| This will look justly and become | I |
| An execution that a martyrdom | I |
| The censuring world will ne'er refrain | J |
| From judging men by thunder slain | J |
| She must be angry sure if I should be | G |
| So bold to ask her to make me | G |
| By being hers happier than she | G |
| I will not 't is a milder fate | K |
| To fall by her not loving than her hate | K |
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| And yet this death of mine I fear | L |
| Will ominous to her appear | L |
| When sound in every other part | M |
| Her sacrifice is found without an heart | M |
| For the last tempest of my death | N |
| Shall sigh out that too with my breath | N |
| Then shall the world my noble ruin see | G |
| Some pity and some envy me | G |
| Then she herself the mighty she | G |
| Shall grace my funerals with this truth | O |
| ' 'T was only Love destroy'd the gentle youth ' | - |
Abraham Cowley
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