A Fever Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDE AFAF GAHA IJKJ LALA LHLH| Oh do not die for I shall hate | A |
| All women so when thou art gone | B |
| That thee I shall not celebrate | A |
| When I remember thou wast one | C |
| But yet thou canst not die I know | D |
| To leave this world behind is death | E |
| But when thou from this world wilt go | D |
| The whole world vapors with thy breath | E |
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| Or if when thou the world's soul goest | A |
| It stay 'tis but thy carcass then | F |
| The fairest woman but thy ghost | A |
| But corrupt worms the worthiest men | F |
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| O wrangling schools that search what fire | G |
| Shall burn this world had none the wit | A |
| Unto this knowledge to aspire | H |
| That this her fever might be it | A |
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| And yet she cannot waste by this | I |
| Nor long bear this torturing wrong | J |
| For much corruption needful is | K |
| To fuel such a fever long | J |
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| These burning fits but meteors be | L |
| Whose matter in thee is soon spent | A |
| Thy beauty and all parts which are thee | L |
| Are unchangeable firmament | A |
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| Yet 'twas of my mind seizing thee | L |
| Though it in thee cannot persever | H |
| For I had rather owner be | L |
| Of thee one hour than all else ever | H |
John Donne
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