Love's Infiniteness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDEFBB BGHGIDJDFHB KLMLNMNMFHB| If yet I have not all thy love | A |
| Dear I shall never have it all | B |
| I cannot breathe one other sigh to move | C |
| Nor can entreat one other tear to fall | B |
| And all my treasure which should purchase thee | D |
| Sighs tears and oaths and letters I have spent | E |
| Yet no more can be due to me | D |
| Than at the bargain made was meant | E |
| If then thy gift of love were partial | F |
| That some to me some should to others fall | B |
| Dear I shall never have thee all | B |
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| Or if then thou gavest me all | B |
| All was but all which thou hadst then | G |
| But if in thy heart since there be or shall | H |
| New love created be by other men | G |
| Which have their stocks entire and can in tears | I |
| In sighs in oaths and letters outbid me | D |
| This new love may beget new fears | J |
| For this love was not vowed by thee | D |
| And yet it was thy gift being general | F |
| The ground thy heart is mine whatever shall | H |
| Grow there dear I should have it all | B |
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| Yet I would not have all yet | K |
| He that hath all can have no more | L |
| And since my love doth every day admit | M |
| New growth thou shouldst have new rewards in store | L |
| Thou canst not every day give me thy heart | N |
| If thou canst give it then thou never gavest it | M |
| Love's riddles are that though thy heart depart | N |
| It stays at home and thou with losing savest it | M |
| But we will have a way more liberal | F |
| Than changing hearts to join them so we shall | H |
| Be one and one another's all | B |
John Donne
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