Come, My Celia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFFGGHHIIJJKL| Come my Celia let us prove | A |
| While we may the sports of love | B |
| Time will not be ours forever | C |
| He at length our good will sever | C |
| Spend not then his gifts in vain | D |
| Suns that set may rise again | E |
| But if once we lose this light | F |
| 'Tis with us perpetual night | F |
| Why should we defer our joys | G |
| Fame and rumor are but toys | G |
| Cannot we delude the eyes | H |
| Of a few poor household spies | H |
| Or his easier ears beguile | I |
| So removed by our wile | I |
| 'Tis no sin love's fruit to steal | J |
| But the sweet theft to reveal | J |
| To be taken to be seen | K |
| These have crimes accounted been | L |
Ben Jonson
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