Go, Lovely Rose Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDCDD EFGHH BIBIIGo lovely Rose | A |
Tell her that wastes her time and me | B |
That now she knows | A |
When I resemble her to thee | B |
How sweet and fair she seems to be | B |
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Tell her that 's young | C |
And shuns to have her graces spied | D |
That hadst thou sprung | C |
In deserts where no men abide | D |
Thou must have uncommended died | D |
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Small is the worth | E |
Of beauty from the light retired | F |
Bid her come forth | G |
Suffer herself to be desired | H |
And not blush so to be admired | H |
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Then die that she | B |
The common fate of all things rare | I |
May read in thee | B |
How small a part of time they share | I |
That are so wondrous sweet and fair | I |
Edmund Waller
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