The Lover's Resolution Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCDD EEFFGHDD IJKKLLDD MMEENNDD AAOONPDD| Shall I wasting in despair | A |
| Die because a woman 's fair | A |
| Or make pale my cheeks with care | A |
| 'Cause another's rosy are | B |
| Be she fairer than the day | C |
| Or the flow'ry meads in May | C |
| If she think not well of me | D |
| What care I how fair she be | D |
| - | |
| Shall my silly heart be pined | E |
| 'Cause I see a woman kind | E |
| Or a well dispos egrave d nature | F |
| Join egrave d with a lovely feature | F |
| Be she meeker kinder than | G |
| Turtle dove or pelican | H |
| If she be not so to me | D |
| What care I how kind she be | D |
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| Shall a woman's virtues move | I |
| Me to perish for her love | J |
| Or her well deservings known | K |
| Make me quite forget my own | K |
| Be she with that goodness blest | L |
| Which may merit name of Best | L |
| If she be not such to me | D |
| What care I how good she be | D |
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| 'Cause her fortune seems too high | M |
| Shall I play the fool and die | M |
| She that bears a noble mind | E |
| If not outward helps she find | E |
| Thinks what with them he would do | N |
| That without them dares her woo | N |
| And unless that mind I see | D |
| What care I how great she be | D |
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| Great or good or kind or fair | A |
| I will ne'er the more despair | A |
| If she love me this believe | O |
| I will die ere she shall grieve | O |
| If she slight me when I woo | N |
| I can scorn and let her go | P |
| For if she be not for me | D |
| What care I for whom she be | D |
George Wither
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