The Given Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCAA DDEEFFAA GHIIJJFF KKAALMNN OPQQRRST QQUVWWML XYAABBZZ AAOPA2A2B2B2 C2C2D2E2YYAA| I'LL on for what should hinder me | A |
| From loving and enjoying thee | A |
| Thou canst not those exceptions make | B |
| Which vulgar sordid mortals take | B |
| That my fate's too mean and low | C |
| 'T were pity I should love thee so | C |
| If that dull cause could hinder me | A |
| In loving and enjoying thee | A |
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| It does not me a whit displease | D |
| That the rich all honours seize | D |
| That you all titles make your own | E |
| Are valiant learned wise alone | E |
| But if you claim o'er women too | F |
| The power which over men ye do | F |
| If you alone must lovers be | A |
| For that Sirs you must pardon me | A |
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| Rather than lose what does so near | G |
| Concern my life and being here | H |
| I'll some such crooked ways invent | I |
| As you or your forefathers went | I |
| I'll flatter or oppose the king | J |
| Turn Puritan or any thing | J |
| I'll force my mind to arts so new | F |
| Grow rich and love as well as you | F |
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| But rather thus let me remain | K |
| As man in paradise did reign | K |
| When perfect love did so agree | A |
| With innocence and poverty | A |
| Adam did no jointure give | L |
| Himself was jointure to his Eve | M |
| Untouch'd with avarice yet or pride | N |
| The rib came freely back t' his side | N |
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| A curse upon the man who taught | O |
| Women that love was to be bought | P |
| Rather dote only on your gold | Q |
| And that with greedy avarice hold | Q |
| For if woman too submit | R |
| To that and sell herself for it | R |
| Fond lover you a mistress have | S |
| Of her that's but your fellow slave | T |
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| What should those poets mean of old | Q |
| That made their God to woo in gold | Q |
| Of all men sure they had no cause | U |
| To bind love to such costly laws | V |
| And yet I scarcely blame them now | W |
| For who alas would not allow | W |
| That women should such gifts receive | M |
| Could they as he be what they give | L |
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| If thou my dear thyself shouldst prize | X |
| Alas what value would suffice | Y |
| The Spaniard could not do't though he | A |
| Should to both Indies jointure thee | A |
| Thy beauties therefore wrong will take | B |
| If thou shouldst any bargain make | B |
| To give all will befit thee well | Z |
| But not at under rates to sell | Z |
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| Bestow thy beauty then on me | A |
| Freely as nature gave't to thee | A |
| 'T is an exploded popish thought | O |
| To think that heaven may be bought | P |
| Prayers hymns and praises are the way | A2 |
| And those my thankful Muse shall pay | A2 |
| Thy body in my verse enshrin'd | B2 |
| Shall grow immortal as thy mind | B2 |
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| I'll fix thy title next in fame | C2 |
| To Sacharissa's well sung name | C2 |
| So faithfully will I declare | D2 |
| What all thy wondrous beauties are | E2 |
| That when at the last great assize | Y |
| All women shall together rise | Y |
| Men straight shall cast their eyes on thee | A |
| And know at first that thou art she | A |
Abraham Cowley
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