A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFH EIDI JKJL MNMO BPBP IQIQ RMRM| As virtuous men pass mildly away | A |
| And whisper to their souls to go | B |
| Whilst some of their sad friends do say | A |
| The breath goes now and some say No | B |
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| So let us melt and make no noise | C |
| No tear floods nor sigh tempests move | D |
| 'Twere profanation of our joys | C |
| To tell the laity our love | E |
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| Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears | F |
| Men reckon what it did and meant | G |
| But trepidation of the spheres | F |
| Though greater far is innocent | H |
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| Dull sublunary lovers' love | E |
| Whose soul is sense cannot admit | I |
| Absence because it doth remove | D |
| Those things which elemented it | I |
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| But we by a love so much refined | J |
| That our selves know not what it is | K |
| Inter assur egrave d of the mind | J |
| Care less eyes lips and hands to miss | L |
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| Our two souls therefore which are one | M |
| Though I must go endure not yet | N |
| A breach but an expansion | M |
| Like gold to aery thinness beat | O |
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| If they be two they are two so | B |
| As stiff twin compasses are two | P |
| Thy soul the fixed foot makes no show | B |
| To move but doth if th' other do | P |
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| And though it in the centre sit | I |
| Yet when the other far doth roam | Q |
| It leans and hearkens after it | I |
| And grows erect as that comes home | Q |
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| Such wilt thou be to me who must | R |
| Like th' other foot obliquely run | M |
| Thy firmness makes my circle just | R |
| And makes me end where I begun | M |
John Donne
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