Self-love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGHGHIJKLMNON PCPA| He that cannot choose but love | A |
| And strives against it still | B |
| Never shall my fancy move | C |
| For he loves 'gainst his will | B |
| Nor he which is all his own | D |
| And can at pleasure choose | E |
| When I am caught he can be gone | F |
| And when he list refuse | E |
| Nor he that loves none but fair | G |
| For such by all are sought | H |
| Nor he that can for foul ones care | G |
| For his judgement then is nought | H |
| Nor he that hath wit for he | I |
| Will make me his jest or slave | J |
| Nor a fool for when others | K |
| He can neither | L |
| Nor he that still his Mistress pays | M |
| For she is thralled therefore | N |
| Nor he that pays not for he says | O |
| Within She's worth no more | N |
| Is there then no kind of men | P |
| Whom I may freely prove | C |
| I will vent that humour then | P |
| In mine own self love | A |
John Donne
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