The Given Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCAA DDEEFFAA GHIIJJFF KKAALMNN OPQQRRST QQUVWWML XYAABBZZ AAOPA2A2B2B2 C2C2D2E2YYAAI'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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