Air And Angels Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBABACDCDDEEE FGHFIFJEJEEFFF| Twice or thrice had I loved thee | A |
| Before I knew thy face or name | B |
| So in a voice so in a shapeless flame | B |
| Angels affect us oft and worship'd be | A |
| Still when to where thou wert I came | B |
| Some lovely glorious nothing I did see | A |
| But since my soul whose child love is | C |
| Takes limbs of flesh and else could nothing do | D |
| More subtile than the parent is | C |
| Love must not be but take a body too | D |
| And therefore what thou wert and who | D |
| I bid Love ask and now | E |
| That it assume thy body I allow | E |
| And fix itself in thy lip eye and brow | E |
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| Whilst thus to ballast love I thought | F |
| And so more steadily to have gone | G |
| With wares which would sink admiration | H |
| I saw I had love's pinnace overfraught | F |
| Ev'ry thy hair for love to work upon | I |
| Is much too much some fitter must be sought | F |
| For nor in nothing nor in things | J |
| Extreme and scatt'ring bright can love inhere | E |
| Then as an Angel face and wings | J |
| Of air not pure as it yet pure doth wear | E |
| So thy love may be my loves sphere | E |
| Just such disparity | F |
| As is twixt Air and Angels' purity | F |
| 'Twixt women's love and men's will ever be | F |
John Donne
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