Love's Usury Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCCC DDEEFFFF BBGGBBBB| For every hour that thou wilt spare me now | A |
| I will allow | A |
| Usurious God of Love twenty to thee | B |
| When with my brown my grey hairs equal be | B |
| Till then Love let my body reign and let | C |
| Me travel sojourn snatch plot have forget | C |
| Resume my last year's relict think that yet | C |
| We had never met | C |
| - | |
| Let me think any rival's letter mine | D |
| And at next nine | D |
| Keep midnight's promise mistake by the way | E |
| The maid and tell the Lady of that delay | E |
| Only let me love none no not the sport | F |
| From country grass to comfitures of Court | F |
| Or city's quelque choses let report | F |
| My mind transport | F |
| - | |
| This bargain's good if when I'am old I be | B |
| Inflamed by thee | B |
| If thine own honour or my shame or pain | G |
| Thou covet most at that age thou shalt gain | G |
| Do thy will then then subject and degree | B |
| And fruit of love Love I submit to thee | B |
| Spare me till then I'll bear it though she be | B |
| One that loves me | B |
John Donne
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