Elegy Xvii: On His Mistress Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDECFFGGHHIIJK LMNOCCPPQQRRQQCCQQGG QQCCQQQQQQSSEEKK| By our first strange and fatal interview | A |
| By all desires which thereof did ensue | A |
| By our long starving hopes by that remorse | B |
| Which my words masculine persuasive force | B |
| Begot in thee and by the memory | C |
| Of hurts which spies and rivals threaten'd me | C |
| I calmly beg But by thy father's wrath | D |
| By all pains which want and divorcement hath | D |
| I conjure thee and all the oaths which I | E |
| And thou have sworn to seal joint constancy | C |
| Here I unswear and overswear them thus | F |
| Thou shalt not love by ways so dangerous | F |
| Temper O fair love love's impetuous rage | G |
| Be my true mistress still not my feign'd page | G |
| I'll go and by thy kind leave leave behind | H |
| Thee only worthy to nurse in my mind | H |
| Thirst to come back O if thou die before | I |
| My soul from other lands to thee shall soar | I |
| Thy else almighty beauty cannot move | J |
| Rage from the seas nor thy love teach them love | K |
| Nor tame wild Boreas' harshness thou hast read | L |
| How roughly he in pieces shivered | M |
| Fair Orithea whom he swore he loved | N |
| Fall ill or good 'tis madness to have proved | O |
| Dangers unurged feed on this flattery | C |
| That absent lovers one in th' other be | C |
| Dissemble nothing not a boy nor change | P |
| Thy body's habit nor mind be not strange | P |
| To thyself only All will spy in thy face | Q |
| A blushing womanly discovering grace | Q |
| Richly clothed apes are call'd apes and as soon | R |
| Eclipsed as bright we call the moon the moon | R |
| Men of France changeable chameleons | Q |
| Spitals of diseases shops of fashions | Q |
| Love's fuellers and the rightest company | C |
| Of players which upon the world's stage be | C |
| Will quickly know thee and no less alas | Q |
| Th' indifferent Italian as we pass | Q |
| His warm land well content to think thee page | G |
| Will hunt thee with such lust and hideous rage | G |
| As Lot's fair guests were vex'd But none of these | Q |
| Nor spongy hydroptic Dutch shall thee displease | Q |
| If thou stay here O stay here for for thee | C |
| England is only a worthy gallery | C |
| To walk in expectation till from thence | Q |
| Our greatest king call thee to his presence | Q |
| When I am gone dream me some happiness | Q |
| Nor let thy looks our long hid love confess | Q |
| Nor praise nor dispraise me nor bless nor curse | Q |
| Openly love's force nor in bed fright thy nurse | Q |
| With midnight's startings crying out O O | S |
| Nurse O my love is slain I saw him go | S |
| O'er the white Alps alone I saw him I | E |
| Assail'd fight taken stabb'd bleed fall and die | E |
| Augur me better chance except dread Jove | K |
| Think it enough for me to have had thy love | K |
John Donne
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