The Definition Of Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG CHCI JKJK LALA MNMN OIOI| My love is of a birth as rare | A |
| As 'tis for object strange and high | B |
| It was begotten by Despair | A |
| Upon Impossibility | C |
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| Magnanimous Despair alone | D |
| Could show me so divine a thing | E |
| Where feeble Hope could ne'er have flown | D |
| But vainly flapped its tinsel wing | E |
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| And yet I quickly might arrive | F |
| Where my extended soul is fixed | G |
| But Fate does iron wedges drive | F |
| And always crowds itself betwixt | G |
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| For Fate with jealous eye does see | C |
| Two perfect loves nor lets them close | H |
| Their union would her ruin be | C |
| And her tyrranic power depose | I |
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| And therefore her decrees of steel | J |
| Us as the distant Poles have placed | K |
| Though Love's whole world on us doth wheel | J |
| Not by themselves to be embraced | K |
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| Unless the giddy heaven fall | L |
| And earth some new convulsion tear | A |
| And us to join the world should all | L |
| Be cramped into a planisphere | A |
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| As lines so loves oblique may well | M |
| Themselves in every angle greet | N |
| But ours so truly parallel | M |
| Though infinite can never meet | N |
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| Therefore the love which us doth bind | O |
| But Fate so enviously debars | I |
| Is the conjunction of the mind | O |
| And opposition of the stars | I |
Andrew Marvell
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