Sonnet 5 - I Wandered Out A While Agone, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CBCBCB DBDBEB FBFBFB GBGBGB| I wandered out a while agone | A |
| And went I know not whither | B |
| But there do beauties many a one | A |
| Resort and meet together | B |
| And Cupid's power will there be shown | A |
| If ever you come thither | B |
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| For like two suns two beauties bright | C |
| I shining saw together | B |
| And tempted by their double light | C |
| My eyes I fixed on either | B |
| Till both at once so thralled my sight | C |
| I loved and knew not whether | B |
| - | |
| Such equal sweet Venus gave | D |
| That I preferred not either | B |
| And when for love I thought to crave | D |
| I knew not well of whether | B |
| For one while this I wished to have | E |
| And then I that had liefer | B |
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| A lover of the curious't eye | F |
| Might have been pleased in either | B |
| And so I must confess might I | F |
| Had they not been together | B |
| Now both must love or both deny | F |
| In one enjoy I neither | B |
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| But yet at last I 'scaped the smart | G |
| I feared at coming hither | B |
| For seeing my divided heart | G |
| I choosing knew not whether | B |
| Love angry grew and did depart | G |
| And now I care for neither | B |
George Wither
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