Resolved To Be Loved Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF BBGG HHII JKLL| 'Tis true I'have lov'd already three or four | A |
| And shall three or four hundred more | A |
| I'll love each fair one that I see | B |
| Till I find one at last that shall love me | B |
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| That shall my Canaan be the fatal soil | C |
| That ends my wandrings and my toil | C |
| I'll settle there and happy grow | D |
| The Country does with Milk and Honey flow | D |
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| The Needle trembles so and turns about | E |
| Till it the Northern Point find out | E |
| But constant then and fixt does prove | F |
| Fixt that his dearest Pole as soon may move | F |
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| Then may my Vessel torn and shipwrackt be | B |
| If it put forth again to Sea | B |
| It never more abroad shall rome | G |
| Though't could next voyage bring the Indies home | G |
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| But I must sweat in Love and labour yet | H |
| Till I a Competency get | H |
| They're slothful fools who leave a Trade | I |
| Till they a moderate fortune by't have made | I |
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| Variety I ask not give me One | J |
| To live perpetually upon | K |
| The person Love does to us fit | L |
| Like Manna has the Tast of all in it | L |
Abraham Cowley
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