To Phyllis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCAADDEEFGHIJJGG KL| Phyllis why should we delay | A |
| Pleasures shorter than the day | A |
| Can we which we never can | B |
| Stretch our lives beyond their span | B |
| Beauty like a shadow flies | C |
| And our youth before us dies | C |
| Or would youth and beauty stay | A |
| Love has wings and will away | A |
| Love has swifter wings than Time | D |
| Change in love to heaven doth climb | D |
| Gods that never change their state | E |
| Vary oft their love and hate | E |
| Phyllis to this truth we owe | F |
| All the love betwixt us two | G |
| Let not you and I inquire | H |
| What has been our past desire | I |
| On what shepherds you have smiled | J |
| Or what nymphs I have beguiled | J |
| Leave it to the planets too | G |
| What we shall hereafter do | G |
| For the joys we now may prove | K |
| Take advice of present love | L |
Edmund Waller
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