The Change Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A AAAABCDDEEFFGGAFHIJK FFLMFFNO| Il sabio mude conseio Il loco persevera | A |
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| We lov'd as friends now twenty years and more | A |
| Is't time or reason think you to give o're | A |
| When though two prentiships set Jacob free | A |
| I have not held my Rachel dear at three | A |
| Yet will I not your levitie accuse | B |
| Continuance sometimes is the worse abuse | C |
| In judgment I might rather hold it strange | D |
| If like the fleeting world you did not change | D |
| Be it your wisdom therefore to retract | E |
| When perseverance oft is follies act | E |
| In pity I can think that what you do | F |
| Hath Justice in't and some Religion too | F |
| For of all vertues Morall or Divine | G |
| We know but Love none must in Heaven shine | G |
| Well did you the presumption then foresee | A |
| Of counterfeiting immortalitie | F |
| Since had you kept our loves too long alive | H |
| We might invade Heavens prerogative | I |
| Or in our progress like the Jews comprise | J |
| The Legend of an earthly Paradise | K |
| Live happy and more prosperous in the next | F |
| You have discharg'd your old friend by the Text | F |
| Farewel fair Shadow of a female faith | L |
| And let this be our friendships Epitaph | M |
| Affection shares the frailty of our fate | F |
| When like our selves 'tis old and out of date | F |
| 'Tis just all humane Loves their period have | N |
| When friends are frail and dropping to the grave | O |
Henry King
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