Love's Growth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDD EFGEHIJJ KLKLMM NOONKKPP| I scarce believe my love to be so pure | A |
| As I had thought it was | B |
| Because it doth endure | A |
| Vicissitude and season as the grass | C |
| Methinks I lied all winter when I swore | D |
| My love was infinite if spring make it more | D |
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| But if this medicine love which cures all sorrow | E |
| With more not only be no quintessence | F |
| But mix'd of all stuffs vexing soul or sense | G |
| And of the sun his active vigour borrow | E |
| Love s not so pure and abstract as they use | H |
| To say which have no mistress but their Muse | I |
| But as all else being elemented too | J |
| Love sometimes would contemplate sometimes do | J |
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| And yet no greater but more eminent | K |
| Love by the spring is grown | L |
| As in the firmament | K |
| Stars by the sun are not enlarged but shown | L |
| Gentle love deeds as blossoms on a bough | M |
| From love's awakened root do bud out now | M |
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| If as in water stirr'd more circles be | N |
| Produced by one love such additions take | O |
| Those like so many spheres but one heaven make | O |
| For they are all concentric unto thee | N |
| And though each spring do add to love new heat | K |
| As princes do in times of action get | K |
| New taxes and remit them not in peace | P |
| No winter shall abate this spring s increase | P |
John Donne
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