Elegy V: His Picture Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFGHHIIDDJJ| Here take my picture though I bid farewell | A |
| Thine in my heart where my soul dwells shall dwell | A |
| 'Tis like me now but I dead 'twill be more | B |
| When we are shadows both than 'twas before | B |
| When weather beaten I come back my hand | C |
| Perhaps with rude oars torn or sunbeams tanned | C |
| My face and breast of haircloth and my head | D |
| With cares rash sudden storms being o'erspread | D |
| My body a sack of bones broken within | E |
| And powder's blue stains scattered on my skin | E |
| If rival fools tax thee t' have loved a man | F |
| So foul and course as Oh I may seem then | G |
| This shall say what I was and thou shalt say | H |
| Do his hurts reach me doth my worth decay | H |
| Or do they reach his judging mind that he | I |
| Should now love less what he did love to see | I |
| That which in him was fair and delicate | D |
| Was but the milk which in love's childish state | D |
| Did nurse it who now is grown strong enough | J |
| To feed on that which to disused tastes seems tough | J |
John Donne
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