What Is Love? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBABA CBBCCC DEEDFD CCCCGCWhat is Love | A |
Is it a folly | B |
Is it mirth or melancholy | B |
Joys above | A |
Are there many or not any | B |
What is Love | A |
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If you please | C |
A most sweet folly | B |
Full of mirth and melancholy | B |
Both of these | C |
In its sadness worth all gladness | C |
If you please | C |
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Prithee where | D |
Goes Love a hiding | E |
Is he long in his abiding | E |
Anywhere | D |
Can you bind him when you find him | F |
Prithee where | D |
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With spring days | C |
Love comes and dallies | C |
Upon the mountains through the valleys | C |
Lie Love's ways | C |
Then he leaves you and deceives you | G |
In spring days | C |
Ernest Dowson
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