Elegy Xiii: His Parting From Her Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFAAGGHHIIAA HHJJFFKKLLMMNNOOPPQQ RRHHSSHHHHHHTTHHUUVW JJUUXXHHYYHHZZA2A2B2 B2VC2HHAAD2VFFE2E2HH F2F2G2G2TTC2C2H2H2UU| SINCE she must go and I must mourn come night | A |
| Environ me with darkness whilst I write | A |
| Shadow that hell unto me which alone | B |
| I am to suffer when my love is gone | C |
| Alas the darkest magic cannot do it | D |
| Thou and great hell to boot are shadows to it | D |
| Should Cynthia quit thee Venus and each star | E |
| It would not form one thought dark as mine are | E |
| I could lend them obscureness now and say | F |
| Out of my self there should be no more day | F |
| Such is already my self want of sight | A |
| Did not the fire within me force a light | A |
| O Love that fire and darkness should be mix'd | G |
| Or to thy triumphs such strange torments fix'd | G |
| Is it because thou thyself art blind that we | H |
| Thy martyrs must no more each other see | H |
| Or takest thou pride to break us on the wheel | I |
| And view old Chaos in the pains we feel | I |
| Or have we left undone some mutual rite | A |
| That thus with parting thou seek'st us to spite | A |
| No no The fault is mine impute it to me | H |
| Or rather to conspiring destiny | H |
| Which since I loved in jest before decreed | J |
| That I should suffer when I loved indeed | J |
| And therefore sooner now than I can say | F |
| I saw the golden fruit 'tis rapt away | F |
| Or as I'd watch'd one drop in the vast stream | K |
| And I left wealthy only in a dream | K |
| Yet Love thou'rt blinder than myself in this | L |
| To vex my dove like friend for my amiss | L |
| And where one sad truth may expiate | M |
| Thy wrath to make her fortune run my fate | M |
| So blinded justice doth when favourites fall | N |
| Strike them their house their friends their favourites all | N |
| Was't not enough that thou didst dart thy fires | O |
| Into our bloods inflaming our desires | O |
| And madest us sigh and blow and pant and burn | P |
| And then thyself into our flames didst turn | P |
| Was't not enough that thou didst hazard us | Q |
| To paths in love so dark and dangerous | Q |
| And those so ambush'd round with household spies | R |
| And over all thy husband's towering eyes | R |
| Inflamed with th' ugly sweat of jealousy | H |
| Yet went we not still on in constancy | H |
| Have we for this kept guards like spy on spy | S |
| Had correspondence whilst the foe stood by | S |
| Stolen more to sweeten them our many blisses | H |
| Of meetings conference embracements kisses | H |
| Shadow'd with negligence our best respects | H |
| Varied our language through all dialects | H |
| Of becks winks looks and often under boards | H |
| Spoke dialogues with our feet far from our words | H |
| Have we proved all the secrets of our art | T |
| Yea thy pale inwards and thy panting heart | T |
| And after all this passed purgatory | H |
| Must sad divorce make us the vulgar story | H |
| First let our eyes be riveted quite through | U |
| Our turning brain and both our lips grow to | U |
| Let our arms clasp like ivy and our fear | V |
| Freeze us together that we may stick here | W |
| Till Fortune that would ruin us with the deed | J |
| Strain his eyes open and yet make them bleed | J |
| For Love it cannot be whom hitherto | U |
| I have accused should such a mischief do | U |
| O Fortune thou'rt not worth my least exclaim | X |
| And plague enough thou hast in thy own name | X |
| Do thy great worst my friend and I have charms | H |
| Though not against thy strokes against thy harms | H |
| Rend us in sunder thou canst not divide | Y |
| Our bodies so but that our souls are tied | Y |
| And we can love by letters still and gifts | H |
| And thoughts and dreams love never wanteth shifts | H |
| I will not look upon the quickening sun | Z |
| But straight her beauty to my sense shall run | Z |
| The air shall note her soft the fire most pure | A2 |
| Waters suggest her clear and the earth sure | A2 |
| Time shall not lose our passages the spring | B2 |
| How fresh our love was in the beginning | B2 |
| The summer how it ripen'd in the year | V |
| And autumn what our golden harvests were | C2 |
| The winter I'll not think on to spite thee | H |
| But count it a lost season so shall she | H |
| And dearest friend since we must part drown night | A |
| With hope of day burdens well borne are light | A |
| The cold and darkness longer hang somewhere | D2 |
| Yet Phoebus equally lights all the sphere | V |
| And what we cannot in like portion pay | F |
| The world enjoys in mass and so we may | F |
| Be then ever yourself and let no woe | E2 |
| Win on your health your youth your beauty so | E2 |
| Declare yourself base Fortune's enemy | H |
| No less be your contempt than her inconstancy | H |
| That I may grow enamour'd on your mind | F2 |
| When mine own thoughts I here neglected find | F2 |
| And this to the comfort of my dear I vow | G2 |
| My deeds shall still be what my deeds are now | G2 |
| The poles shall move to teach me ere I start | T |
| And when I change my love I'll change my heart | T |
| Nay if I wax but cold in my desire | C2 |
| Think heaven hath motion lost and the world fire | C2 |
| Much more I could but many words have made | H2 |
| That oft suspected which men most persuade | H2 |
| Take therefore all in this I love so true | U |
| As I will never look for less in you | U |
John Donne
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