Love, Not Duty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBA ABBA DDEDE FFFGH IIJJFFThought 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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