Song: Go And Catch A Falling Star Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDEEE FGFGGGHHH IJIJKKGGG| Go and catch a falling star | A |
| Get with child a mandrake root | B |
| Tell me where all past years are | A |
| Or who cleft the devil's foot | C |
| Teach me to hear mermaids singing | D |
| Or to keep off envy's stinging | D |
| And find | E |
| What wind | E |
| Serves to advance an honest mind | E |
| - | |
| If thou be'st born to strange sights | F |
| Things invisible to see | G |
| Ride ten thousand days and nights | F |
| Till age snow white hairs on thee | G |
| Thou when thou return'st wilt tell me | G |
| All strange wonders that befell thee | G |
| And swear | H |
| No where | H |
| Lives a woman true and fair | H |
| - | |
| If thou find'st one let me know | I |
| Such a pilgrimage were sweet | J |
| Yet do not I would not go | I |
| Though at next door we might meet | J |
| Though she were true when you met her | K |
| And last till you write your letter | K |
| Yet she | G |
| Will be | G |
| False ere I come to two or three | G |
John Donne
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