Inconstancy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFGHHIJKKLLMNEE OOPPQRPP| FIVE years ago says Story I lov'd you | A |
| For which you call me most inconstant now | B |
| Pardon me Madam you mistake the man | C |
| For I am not the same that I was then | D |
| No flesh is now the same 'twas then in me | E |
| And that my mind is chang'd yourself may see | E |
| The same thoughts to retain still and intents | F |
| Were more inconstant far for accidents | G |
| Must of all things most strangely inconstant prove | H |
| If from one subject they t' another move | H |
| My members then the father members were | I |
| From whence these take their birth which now are here | J |
| If then this body love what th' other did | K |
| 'T were incest which by Nature is forbid | K |
| You might as well this day inconstant name | L |
| Because the weather is not still the same | L |
| That it was yesterday or blame the year | M |
| 'Cause the spring flowers and autumn fruit does bear | N |
| The world's a scene of changes and to be | E |
| Constant in Nature were inconstancy | E |
| For 't were to break the laws herself has made | O |
| Our substances themselves do fleet and fade | O |
| The most fix'd being still does move and fly | P |
| Swift as the wings of time 't is measur'd by | P |
| T' imagine then that Love should never cease | Q |
| Love which is but the ornament of these | R |
| Were quite as senseless as to wonder why | P |
| Beauty and colour stay not when we die | P |
Abraham Cowley
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