What Is Love? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBABA CBBCCC DEEDFD CCCCGC| What 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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