Elegy Vi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFFGGFFHHIIJJ KKLLMMNNOOPPIIQQPPII DDFIRR| Oh let me not serve so as those men serve | A |
| Whom honour's smokes at once fatten and starve | B |
| Poorly enrich't with great men's words or looks | C |
| Nor so write my name in thy loving books | C |
| As those idolatrous flatterers which still | D |
| Their Prince's styles with many realms fulfil | D |
| Whence they no tribute have and where no sway | E |
| Such services I offer as shall pay | E |
| Themselves I hate dead names Oh then let me | F |
| Favourite in Ordinary or no favourite be | F |
| When my soul was in her own body sheathed | G |
| Nor yet by oaths betrothed nor kisses breathed | G |
| Into my Purgatory faithless thee | F |
| Thy heart seemed wax and steel thy constancy | F |
| So careless flowers strowed on the waters face | H |
| The curled whirlpools suck smack and embrace | H |
| Yet drown them so the taper's beamy eye | I |
| Amorously twinkling beckons the giddy fly | I |
| Yet burns his wings and such the devil is | J |
| Scarce visiting them who are entirely his | J |
| When I behold a stream which from the spring | K |
| Doth with doubtful melodious murmuring | K |
| Or in a speechless slumber calmly ride | L |
| Her wedded channels' bosom and then chide | L |
| And bend her brows and swell if any bough | M |
| Do but stoop down or kiss her upmost brow | M |
| Yet if her often gnawing kisses win | N |
| The traiterous bank to gape and let her in | N |
| She rusheth violently and doth divorce | O |
| Her from her native and her long kept course | O |
| And roars and braves it and in gallant scorn | P |
| In flattering eddies promising retorn | P |
| She flouts the channel who thenceforth is dry | I |
| Then say I That is she and this am I | I |
| Yet let not thy deep bitterness beget | Q |
| Careless despair in me for that will whet | Q |
| My mind to scorn and Oh love dulled with pain | P |
| Was ne'er so wise nor well armed as disdain | P |
| Then with new eyes I shall survey thee and spy | I |
| Death in thy cheeks and darkness in thine eye | I |
| Though hope bred faith and love thus taught I shall | D |
| As nations do from Rome from thy love fall | D |
| My hate shall outgrow thine and utterly | F |
| I will renounce thy dalliance and when I | I |
| Am the recusant in that resolute state | R |
| What hurts it me to be excommunicate | R |
John Donne
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