A Letter To Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFAAGGHIJJ KKLLMN| My head my heart mine eyes my life nay more | A |
| My joy my magazine of earthly store | A |
| If two be one as surely thou and I | B |
| How stayest thou there whilst I at Ipswich lie | B |
| So many steps head from the heart to sever | C |
| If but a neck soon should we be together | C |
| I like the Earth this season mourn in black | D |
| My Sun is gone so far in's zodiac | D |
| Whom whilst I 'joyed nor storms nor frost I felt | E |
| His warmth such fridged colds did cause to melt | E |
| My chilled limbs now numbed lie forlorn | F |
| Return return sweet Sol from Capricorn | F |
| In this dead time alas what can I more | A |
| Than view those fruits which through thy heart I bore | A |
| Which sweet contentment yield me for a space | G |
| True living pictures of their father's face | G |
| O strange effect now thou art southward gone | H |
| I weary grow the tedious day so long | I |
| But when thou northward to me shalt return | J |
| I wish my Sun may never set but burn | J |
| Within the Cancer of my glowing breast | K |
| The welcome house of him my dearest guest | K |
| Where ever ever stay and go not thence | L |
| Till nature's sad decree shall call thee hence | L |
| Flesh of thy flesh bone of thy bone | M |
| I here thou there yet both but one | N |
Anne Bradstreet
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