On The Friendship Betwixt Two Ladies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHI JKJK ALAM| Tell me lovely loving pair | A |
| Why so kind and so severe | B |
| Why so careless of our care | A |
| Only to yourselves so dear | B |
| - | |
| By this cunning change of hearts | C |
| You the power of love control | D |
| While the boy's eluded darts | C |
| Can arrive at neither soul | D |
| - | |
| For in vain to either breast | E |
| Still beguiled love does come | F |
| Where he finds a foreign guest | E |
| Neither of your hearts at home | G |
| - | |
| Debtors thus with like design | H |
| When they never mean to pay | I |
| That they may the law decline | H |
| To some friend make all away | I |
| - | |
| Not the silver doves that fly | J |
| Yoked in Cytherea's car | K |
| Not the wings that lift so high | J |
| And convey her son so far | K |
| - | |
| Are so lovely sweet and fair | A |
| Or do more ennoble love | L |
| Are so choicely matched a pair | A |
| Or with more consent do move | M |
Edmund Waller
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