The Heart Breaking Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DEFF GGHH IJKK LMNN| It gave a piteous groan and so it broke | A |
| In vain it something would have spoke | A |
| The love within too strong for 't was | B |
| Like poison put into a Venice glass | C |
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| I thought that this some remedy might prove | D |
| But oh the mighty serpent Love | E |
| Cut by this chance in pieces small | F |
| In all still liv'd and still it stung in all | F |
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| And now alas each little broken part | G |
| Feels the whole pain of all my heart | G |
| And every smallest corner still | H |
| Lives with that torment which the whole did kill | H |
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| Even so rude armies when the field they quit | I |
| And into several quarters get | J |
| Each troop does spoil and ruin more | K |
| Than all join'd in one body did before | K |
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| How many Loves reign in my bosom now | L |
| How many loves yet all of you | M |
| Thus have I chang'd with evil fate | N |
| My Monarch love into a Tyrant state | N |
Abraham Cowley
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