Sweetest Love, I Do Not Go Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDDC EFEFBGGB HIHIJKKJ LFLFBMNB OPOPBQQB| Sweetest love I do not go | A |
| For weariness of thee | B |
| Nor in hope the world can show | A |
| A fitter love for me | B |
| But since that I | C |
| Must die at last 'tis best | D |
| To use myself in jest | D |
| Thus by feign'd deaths to die | C |
| - | |
| Yesternight the sun went hence | E |
| And yet is here today | F |
| He hath no desire nor sense | E |
| Nor half so short a way | F |
| Then fear not me | B |
| But believe that I shall make | G |
| Speedier journeys since I take | G |
| More wings and spurs than he | B |
| - | |
| O how feeble is man's power | H |
| That if good fortune fall | I |
| Cannot add another hour | H |
| Nor a lost hour recall | I |
| But come bad chance | J |
| And we join to'it our strength | K |
| And we teach it art and length | K |
| Itself o'er us to'advance | J |
| - | |
| When thou sigh'st thou sigh'st not wind | L |
| But sigh'st my soul away | F |
| When thou weep'st unkindly kind | L |
| My life's blood doth decay | F |
| It cannot be | B |
| That thou lov'st me as thou say'st | M |
| If in thine my life thou waste | N |
| That art the best of me | B |
| - | |
| Let not thy divining heart | O |
| Forethink me any ill | P |
| Destiny may take thy part | O |
| And may thy fears fulfil | P |
| But think that we | B |
| Are but turn'd aside to sleep | Q |
| They who one another keep | Q |
| Alive ne'er parted be | B |
John Donne
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