The Change Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCD EEFFGG FFFFDC HIJJKK| Love in her Sunny Eyes does basking play | A |
| Love walks the pleasant Mazes of her Hair | B |
| Love does on both her Lips for ever stray | A |
| And sows and reaps a thousand kisses there | B |
| In all her outward parts Love 's always seen | C |
| But oh He never went within | D |
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| Within Love's foes his greatest foes abide | E |
| Malice Inconstancy and Pride | E |
| So the Earths face Trees Herbs and Flowers do dress | F |
| With other beauties numberless | F |
| But at the Center Darkness is and Hell | G |
| There wicked Spirits and there the Damned dwell | G |
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| With me alas quite contrary it fares | F |
| Darkness and Death lies in my weeping eyes | F |
| Despair and Paleness in my face appears | F |
| And Grief and Fear Love's greatest Enemies | F |
| But like the Persian Tyrant Love within | D |
| Keeps his proud Court and ne're is seen | C |
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| Oh take my Heart and by that means you'll prove | H |
| Within too stor'd enough of Love | I |
| Give me but Yours I'll by that change so thrive | J |
| That Love in all my parts shall live | J |
| So powerful is this change it render can | K |
| My outside Woman and your inside Man | K |
Abraham Cowley
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