Love's Alchemy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEDFGG HHIIHJKKLMNN| Some that have deeper digg'd love's mine than I | A |
| Say where his centric happiness doth lie | A |
| I have lov'd and got and told | B |
| But should I love get tell till I were old | B |
| I should not find that hidden mystery | C |
| Oh 'tis imposture all | D |
| And as no chemic yet th'elixir got | E |
| But glorifies his pregnant pot | E |
| If by the way to him befall | D |
| Some odoriferous thing or medicinal | F |
| So lovers dream a rich and long delight | G |
| But get a winter seeming summer's night | G |
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| Our ease our thrift our honour and our day | H |
| Shall we for this vain bubble's shadow pay | H |
| Ends love in this that my man | I |
| Can be as happy'as I can if he can | I |
| Endure the short scorn of a bridegroom's play | H |
| That loving wretch that swears | J |
| 'Tis not the bodies marry but the minds | K |
| Which he in her angelic finds | K |
| Would swear as justly that he hears | L |
| In that day's rude hoarse minstrelsy the spheres | M |
| Hope not for mind in women at their best | N |
| Sweetness and wit they'are but mummy possess'd | N |
John Donne
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