What Will You Give? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHG HIIH CJJC| What will you give me if I will wed | A |
| A golden gown | B |
| To come sweetly down | B |
| And deck you from foot to head | A |
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| How will you keep me if I am cold | C |
| By a heart so warm | D |
| The bravest storm | D |
| Dare not force through my strong hands' hold | C |
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| How will you please me if I should thirst | E |
| Why by the rape | F |
| Of the purple grape | F |
| Which the summer and sun have nursed | E |
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| If I should hunger what may I eat | G |
| For you the skies | H |
| The falcon flies | H |
| And the hounds on the stag are fleet | G |
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| How can you comfort when fair youth dies | H |
| When the spirit's fain | I |
| For a purer gain | I |
| Than the satisfied flesh supplies | H |
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| But this I promise when starved and cold | C |
| A lonely soul | J |
| Finds for its goal | J |
| A six foot bed and churchyard mould | C |
Dora Sigerson Shorter
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