Love, Not Duty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBA ABBA DDEDE FFFGH IIJJFF| Thought may well be ever ranging | A |
| And opinion ever changing | A |
| Task work be though ill begun | B |
| Dealt with by experience better | C |
| By the law and by the letter | C |
| Duty done is duty done | B |
| Do it Time is on the wing | A |
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| Hearts 'tis quite another thing | A |
| Must or once for all be given | B |
| Or must not at all be given | B |
| Hearts 'tis quite another thing | A |
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| To bestow the soul away | D |
| Is an idle duty play | D |
| Why to trust a life long bliss | E |
| To caprices of a day | D |
| Scarce were more depraved than this | E |
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| Men and maidens see you mind it | F |
| Show of love where'er you find it | F |
| Look if duty lurk behind it | F |
| Duty fancies urging on | G |
| Whither love had never gone | H |
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| Loving if the answering breast | I |
| Seem not to be thus possessed | I |
| Still in hoping have a care | J |
| If it do beware beware | J |
| But if in yourself you find it | F |
| Above all things mind it mind it | F |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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