Love's Deity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCC DEDEFCC GHGHCCC IJIJCCC| I long to talk with some old lover's ghost | A |
| Who died before the god of love was born | B |
| I cannot think that he who then lov'd most | A |
| Sunk so low as to love one which did scorn | B |
| But since this god produc'd a destiny | C |
| And that vice nature custom lets it be | C |
| I must love her that loves not me | C |
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| Sure they which made him god meant not so much | D |
| Nor he in his young godhead practis'd it | E |
| But when an even flame two hearts did touch | D |
| His office was indulgently to fit | E |
| Actives to passives Correspondency | F |
| Only his subject was it cannot be | C |
| Love till I love her that loves me | C |
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| But every modern god will now extend | G |
| His vast prerogative as far as Jove | H |
| To rage to lust to write to to commend | G |
| All is the purlieu of the god of love | H |
| O were we waken'd by this tyranny | C |
| To ungod this child again it could not be | C |
| I should love her who loves not me | C |
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| Rebel and atheist too why murmur I | I |
| As though I felt the worst that love could do | J |
| Love might make me leave loving or might try | I |
| A deeper plague to make her love me too | J |
| Which since she loves before I'am loth to see | C |
| Falsehood is worse than hate and that must be | C |
| If she whom I love should love me | C |
John Donne
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