Motives Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBC D EC FFGGH D DH| IF to a girl who loves us truly | A |
| Her mother gives instruction duly | A |
| In virtue duty and what not | B |
| And if she hearkens ne'er a jot | B |
| But with fresh strengthen'd longing flies | C |
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| To meet our kiss that seems to burn | D |
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| Caprice has just as much concerned | E |
| As love in her bold enterprise | C |
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| But if her mother can succeed | F |
| In gaining for her maxims heed | F |
| And softening the girl's heart too | G |
| So that she coyly shuns our view | G |
| The heart of youth she knows but ill | H |
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| For when a maiden is thus stern | D |
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| Virtue in truth has less concern | D |
| In this than an inconstant will | H |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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