A Valediction: Of Weeping Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFFF GHIGCCJJJ KLLKMMEEE| Let me pour forth | A |
| My tears before thy face whilst I stay here | B |
| For thy face coins them and thy stamp they bear | C |
| And by this mintage they are something worth | D |
| For thus they be | E |
| Pregnant of thee | E |
| Fruits of much grief they are emblems of more | F |
| When a tear falls that thou falls which it bore | F |
| So thou and I are nothing then when on a divers shore | F |
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| On a round ball | G |
| A workman that hath copies by can lay | H |
| An Europe Afrique and an Asia | I |
| And quickly make that which was nothing All | G |
| So doth each tear | C |
| Which thee doth wear | C |
| A globe yea world by that impression grow | J |
| Till thy tears mixed with mine do overflow | J |
| This world by waters sent from thee my heaven dissolved so | J |
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| O more than moon | K |
| Draw not up seas to drown me in thy sphere | L |
| Weep me not dead in thine armes but forbear | L |
| To teach the sea what it may do too soon | K |
| Let not the wind | M |
| Example find | M |
| To do me more harm than it purposeth | E |
| Since thou and I sigh one another's breath | E |
| Who e'er sighs most is cruellest and hastes the other's death | E |
John Donne
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