The Anniversary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAAAABBBB AACCAADEDE FFCCGGHIHH| ALL kings and all their favourites | A |
| All glory of honours beauties wits | A |
| The sun it self which makes time as they pass | A |
| Is elder by a year now than it was | A |
| When thou and I first one another saw | A |
| All other things to their destruction draw | A |
| Only our love hath no decay | B |
| This no to morrow hath nor yesterday | B |
| Running it never runs from us away | B |
| But truly keeps his first last everlasting day | B |
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| Two graves must hide thine and my corse | A |
| If one might death were no divorce | A |
| Alas as well as other princes we | C |
| Who prince enough in one another be | C |
| Must leave at last in death these eyes and ears | A |
| Oft fed with true oaths and with sweet salt tears | A |
| But souls where nothing dwells but love | D |
| All other thoughts being inmates then shall prove | E |
| This or a love increas d there above | D |
| When bodies to their graves souls from their graves remove | E |
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| And then we shall be throughly blest | F |
| But now no more than all the rest | F |
| Here upon earth we're kings and none but we | C |
| Can be such kings nor of such subjects be | C |
| Who is so safe as we where none can do | G |
| Treason to us except one of us two | G |
| True and false fears let us refrain | H |
| Let us love nobly and live and add again | I |
| Years and years unto years till we attain | H |
| To write threescore this is the second of our reign | H |
John Donne
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