The Self Banished Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHJ KEKE| It is not that I love you less | A |
| Than when before your feet I lay | B |
| But to prevent the sad increase | C |
| Of hopeless love I keep away | B |
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| In vain alas for everything | D |
| Which I have known belong to you | E |
| Your form does to my fancy bring | D |
| And makes my old wounds bleed anew | E |
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| Who in the spring from the new sun | F |
| Already has a fever got | G |
| Too late begins those shafts to shun | F |
| Which Ph bus through his veins has shot | G |
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| Too late he would the pain assuage | H |
| And to thick shadows does retire | I |
| About with him he bears the rage | H |
| And in his tainted blood the fire | J |
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| But vow'd I have and never must | K |
| Your banish'd servant trouble you | E |
| For if I break you may distrust | K |
| The vow I made to love you too | E |
Edmund Waller
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