To His Mistress Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAACA DEDEFGAH AIAIJKAK| There comes an end to summer | A |
| To spring showers and hoar rime | B |
| His mumming to each mummer | A |
| Has somewhere end in time | B |
| And since life ends and laughter | A |
| And leaves fall and tears dry | A |
| Who shall call love immortal | C |
| When all that is must die | A |
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| Nay sweet let's leave unspoken | D |
| The vows the fates gainsay | E |
| For all vows made are broken | D |
| We love but while we may | E |
| Let's kiss when kissing pleases | F |
| And part when kisses pall | G |
| Perchance this time to morrow | A |
| We shall not love at all | H |
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| You ask my love completest | A |
| As strong next year as now | I |
| The devil take you sweetest | A |
| Ere I make aught such vow | I |
| Life is a masque that changes | J |
| A fig for constancy | K |
| No love at all were better | A |
| Than love which is not free | K |
Ernest Christopher Dowson
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