That Time And Absence Proves Rather Helps Than Hurts To Loves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACC DEEDDD AFFAGG HGGHGG| Absence hear thou my protestation | A |
| Against thy strength | B |
| Distance and length | B |
| Do what thou canst for alteration | A |
| For hearts of truest mettle | C |
| Absence doth join and Time doth settle | C |
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| Who loves a mistress of such quality | D |
| His mind hath found | E |
| Affection's ground | E |
| Beyond time place and all mortality | D |
| To hearts that cannot vary | D |
| Absence is present Time doth tarry | D |
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| My senses want their outward motion | A |
| Which now within | F |
| Reason doth win | F |
| Redoubled by her secret notion | A |
| Like rich men that take pleasure | G |
| In hiding more than handling treasure | G |
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| By Absence this good means I gain | H |
| That I can catch her | G |
| Where none can watch her | G |
| In some close corner of my brain | H |
| There I embrace and kiss her | G |
| And so enjoy her and none miss her | G |
John Donne
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