Elegy Vii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEFGGEEEEHHIIJK EELMEENNOO| Nature's lay idiot I taught thee to love | A |
| And in that sophistry Oh thou dost prove | B |
| Too subtle Foole thou didst not understand | C |
| The mystic language of the eye nor hand | C |
| Nor couldst thou judge the difference of the air | D |
| Of sighs and say This lies this sounds despair | D |
| Nor by th' eyes water call a malady | E |
| Desperately hot or changing feverously | F |
| I had not taught thee then the Alphabet | G |
| Of flowers how they devisefully being set | G |
| And bound up might with speechless secrecy | E |
| Deliver errands mutely and mutually | E |
| Remember since all thy words used to be | E |
| To every suitor Ay if my friends agree | E |
| Since household charms thy husband's name to teach | H |
| Were all the love tricks that thy wit could reach | H |
| And since an hour's discourse could scarce have made | I |
| One answer in thee and that ill arrayed | I |
| In broken proverbs and torn sentences | J |
| Thou art not by so many duties his | K |
| That from the world's Common having severed thee | E |
| Inlaid thee neither to be seen nor see | E |
| As mine who have with amorous delicacies | L |
| Refined thee into a blisful Paradise | M |
| Thy graces and good words my creatures be | E |
| I planted knowledge and life's tree in thee | E |
| Which Oh shall strangers taste Must I alas | N |
| Frame and enamel plate and drink in glass | N |
| Chaf wax for others' seals break a colt's force | O |
| And leave him then being made a ready horse | O |
John Donne
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