Farewell To Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDCEEFF GGHFIHJJKK LLMNNMOOLL KKPLLPQRSS| Whilst yet to prove | A |
| I thought there was some deity in love | B |
| So did I reverence and gave | C |
| Worship as atheists at their dying hour | D |
| Call what they cannot name an unknown power | D |
| As ignorantly did I crave | C |
| Thus when | E |
| Things not yet known are coveted by men | E |
| Our desires give them fashion and so | F |
| As they wax lesser fall as they size grow | F |
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| But from late fair | G |
| His highness sitting in a golden chair | G |
| Is not less cared for after three days | H |
| By children than the thing which lovers so | F |
| Blindly admire and with such worship woo | I |
| Being had enjoying it decays | H |
| And thence | J |
| What before pleased them all takes but one sense | J |
| And that so lamely as it leaves behind | K |
| A kind of sorrowing dullness to the mind | K |
| - | |
| Ah cannot we | L |
| As well as cocks and lions jocund be | L |
| After such pleasures Unless wise | M |
| Nature decreed since each such act they say | N |
| Diminish the length of life a day | N |
| This as she would man should despise | M |
| The sport | O |
| Because that other curse of being short | O |
| And only for a minute made to be | L |
| Eager desires to raise posterity | L |
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| Since so my mind | K |
| Shall not desire what no man else can find | K |
| I ll no more dote and run | P |
| To purse things which had endamaged me | L |
| And when I come where moving beauties be | L |
| As men do when the summer s sun | P |
| Grows great | Q |
| Though I admire their greatness shun their heat | R |
| Each place can afford shadow If all fail | S |
| Tis but applying worm seed to the tail | S |
John Donne
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