Love, Not Duty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBA ABBA DDEDE FFFGH IIJJFF

Thought may well be ever rangingA
And opinion ever changingA
Task work be though ill begunB
Dealt with by experience betterC
By the law and by the letterC
Duty done is duty doneB
Do it Time is on the wingA
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Hearts 'tis quite another thingA
Must or once for all be givenB
Or must not at all be givenB
Hearts 'tis quite another thingA
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To bestow the soul awayD
Is an idle duty playD
Why to trust a life long blissE
To caprices of a dayD
Scarce were more depraved than thisE
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Men and maidens see you mind itF
Show of love where'er you find itF
Look if duty lurk behind itF
Duty fancies urging onG
Whither love had never goneH
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Loving if the answering breastI
Seem not to be thus possessedI
Still in hoping have a careJ
If it do beware bewareJ
But if in yourself you find itF
Above all things mind it mind itF

Arthur Hugh Clough



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