Platonick Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFE GGHHIIJ KKHHLLM NNOOHHH| INDEED I must confess | A |
| When souls mix 't is an happiness | B |
| But not complete till bodies too do combine | C |
| And closely as our minds together join | D |
| But half of heaven the souls in glory taste | E |
| Till by love in heaven at last | F |
| Their bodies too are plac'd | E |
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| In thy immortal part | G |
| Man as well as I thou art | G |
| But something't is that differs thee and me | H |
| And we must one even in that difference be | H |
| I thee both as a man and woman prize | I |
| For a perfect love implies | I |
| Love in all capacities | J |
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| Can that for true love pass | K |
| When a fair woman courts her glass | K |
| Something unlike must in love's likeness be | H |
| His wonder is one and variety | H |
| For he whose soul nought but a soul can move | L |
| Does a new Narcissus prove | L |
| And his own image love | M |
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| That souls do beauty know | N |
| 'T is to the bodies' help they owe | N |
| If when they know 't they straight abuse that trust | O |
| And shut the body from't 't is as unjust | O |
| As if I brought my dearest friend to see | H |
| My mistress and at th' instant he | H |
| Should steal her quite from me | H |
Abraham Cowley
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