Elegy Iii: Change Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFFCCBBGGCCHHII CCAACCDDCHJJBBHH| Although thy hand and faith and good works too | A |
| Have sealed thy love which nothing should undo | A |
| Yea though thou fall back that apostasy | B |
| Confirm thy love yet much much I fear thee | C |
| Women are like the Arts forced unto to none | D |
| Open to all searchers unprized if unknown | E |
| If I have caught a bird and let him fly | F |
| Another fowler using these means as I | F |
| May catch the same bird and as these things be | C |
| Women are made for men not him nor me | C |
| Foxes and goats all beasts change when they please | B |
| Shall women more hot wily wild than these | B |
| Be bound to one man and did Nature then | G |
| Idly make tham apter t' endure than men | G |
| They're our clogs not their own if a man be | C |
| Chained to a galley yet the galley's free | C |
| Who hath a plough land casts all his seedcorn there | H |
| And yet allows his ground more corn should bear | H |
| Though Danuby into the sea must flow | I |
| The sea receives the Rhine Volga and Po | I |
| By Nature which gave it this liberty | C |
| Thou lov'st but Oh canst thou love it and me | C |
| Likeness glues love and if that thou so do | A |
| To make us like and love must I change too | A |
| More than thy hate I hate't rather let me | C |
| Allow her change than change as oft as she | C |
| And so not teach but force my opinion | D |
| To love not any one nor every one | D |
| To live in one land is captivity | C |
| To run all countries a wild roguery | H |
| Waters stink soon if in one place they bide | J |
| And in the vast sea are more purified | J |
| But when they kiss one bank and leaving this | B |
| Never look back but the next bank do kiss | B |
| Then are they purest Change is the nursery | H |
| Of music joy life and eternity | H |
John Donne
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