A Celebration Of Charis: I. His Excuse For Loving Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFFGGHHIIHHJJ KKLL| Let it not your wonder move | A |
| Less your laughter that I love | B |
| Though I now write fifty years | C |
| I have had and have my peers | C |
| Poets though divine are men | D |
| Some have lov'd as old again | D |
| And it is not always face | E |
| Clothes or fortune gives the grace | E |
| Or the feature or the youth | F |
| But the language and the truth | F |
| With the ardour and the passion | G |
| Gives the lover weight and fashion | G |
| If you then will read the story | H |
| First prepare you to be sorry | H |
| That you never knew till now | I |
| Either whom to love or how | I |
| But be glad as soon with me | H |
| When you know that this is she | H |
| Of whose beauty it was sung | J |
| She shall make the old man young | J |
| Keep the middle age at stay | K |
| And let nothing high decay | K |
| Till she be the reason why | L |
| All the world for love may die | L |
Ben Jonson
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