Community Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDE FFGHHI JJKLMK NNOPPO| Good we must love and must hate ill | A |
| For ill is ill and good good still | A |
| But there are things indifferent | B |
| Which wee may neither hate nor love | C |
| But one and then another prove | D |
| As we shall find our fancy bent | E |
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| If then at first wise Nature had | F |
| Made women either good or bad | F |
| Then some wee might hate and some choose | G |
| But since she did them so create | H |
| That we may neither love nor hate | H |
| Only this rests all all may use | I |
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| If they were good it would be seen | J |
| Good is as visible as green | J |
| And to all eyes itself betrays | K |
| If they were bad they could not last | L |
| Bad doth itself and others waste | M |
| So they deserve nor blame nor praise | K |
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| But they are ours as fruits are ours | N |
| He that but tastes he that devours | N |
| And he that leaves all doth as well | O |
| Changed loves are but changed sorts of meat | P |
| And when he hath the kernel eat | P |
| Who doth not fling away the shell | O |
John Donne
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