To His Coy Mistress Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFGGHHIIJJKK LMNOPPNOQQRRSSTTBBUU VVWWXX| Had we but world enough and time | A |
| This coyness Lady were no crime | A |
| We would sit down and think which way | B |
| To walk and pass our long love's day | B |
| Thou by the Indian Ganges' side | C |
| Shouldst rubies find I by the tide | C |
| Of Humber would complain I would | D |
| Love you ten years before the Flood | E |
| And you should if you please refuse | F |
| Till the conversion of the Jews | F |
| My vegetable love should grow | G |
| Vaster than empires and more slow | G |
| An hundred years should go to praise | H |
| Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze | H |
| Two hundred to adore each breast | I |
| But thirty thousand to the rest | I |
| An age at least to every part | J |
| And the last age should show your heart | J |
| For Lady you deserve this state | K |
| Nor would I love at lower rate | K |
| But at my back I always hear | L |
| Time's wing egrave d chariot hurrying near | M |
| And yonder all before us lie | N |
| Deserts of vast eternity | O |
| Thy beauty shall no more be found | P |
| Nor in thy marble vault shall sound | P |
| My echoing song then worms shall try | N |
| That long preserved virginity | O |
| And your quaint honour turn to dust | Q |
| And into ashes all my lust | Q |
| The grave 's a fine and private place | R |
| But none I think do there embrace | R |
| Now therefore while the youthful hue | S |
| Sits on thy skin like morning dew | S |
| And while thy willing soul transpires | T |
| At every pore with instant fires | T |
| Now let us sport us while we may | B |
| And now like amorous birds of prey | B |
| Rather at once our time devour | U |
| Than languish in his slow chapt power | U |
| Let us roll all our strength and all | V |
| Our sweetness up into one ball | V |
| And tear our pleasures with rough strife | W |
| Thorough the iron gates of life | W |
| Thus though we cannot make our sun | X |
| Stand still yet we will make him run | X |
Andrew Marvell
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