Oh, Ask Me Not Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HEHE IJIJ KLKL| Love should I set my heart upon a crown | A |
| Squander my years and gain it | B |
| What recompense of pleasure could I own | C |
| For youth's red drops would stain it | B |
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| Much have I thought on what our lives may mean | D |
| And what their best endeavor | E |
| Seeing we may not come again to glean | D |
| But losing lose forever | E |
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| Seeing how zealots making choice of pain | F |
| From home and country parted | G |
| Have thought it life to leave their fellows slain | F |
| Their women broken hearted | G |
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| How teasing truth a thousand faces claims | H |
| As in a broken mirror | E |
| And what a father died for in the flames | H |
| His own son scorns as error | E |
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| How even they whose hearts were sweet with song | I |
| Must quaff oblivion's potion | J |
| And soon or late their sails be lost along | I |
| The all surrounding ocean | J |
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| Oh ask me not the haven of our ships | K |
| Nor what flag floats above you | L |
| I hold you close I kiss your sweet sweet lips | K |
| And love you love you love you | L |
John Charles Mcneill
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