Confined Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCC DEDEFFG GHGHGGG| Some man unworthy to be possessor | A |
| Of old or new love himself being false or weak | B |
| Thought his pain and shame would be lesser | A |
| If on womankind he might his anger wreak | B |
| And thence a law did grow | C |
| One might but one man know | C |
| But are other creatures so | C |
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| Are Sun Moon or Stars by law forbidden | D |
| To smile where they list or lend away their light | E |
| Are birds divorced or are they chidden | D |
| If they leave their mate or lie abroad a night | E |
| Beasts do no jointures lose | F |
| Though they new lovers choose | F |
| But we are made worse than those | G |
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| Who e'er rigged fair ship to lie in harbours | G |
| And not to seek new lands or not to deal withal | H |
| Or built fair houses set trees and arbors | G |
| Only to lock up or else to let them fall | H |
| Good is not good unless | G |
| A thousand it possess | G |
| But dost waste with greediness | G |
John Donne
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