The Bait Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DDEE FFGG HHII JJKK LLMM NOPP| Come live with me and be my love | A |
| And we will some new pleasures prove | B |
| Of golden sand and crystal brooks | C |
| With silken lines and silver hooks | C |
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| There will the river whispering run | D |
| Warmed by thy eyes more than the sun | D |
| And there the enamoured fish will stay | E |
| Begging themselves they may betray | E |
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| When wilt thou swim in that live bath | F |
| Each fish which every channel hath | F |
| Will amorously to thee swim | G |
| Gladder to catch thee than thou him | G |
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| If thou to be so seen beest loath | H |
| By sun or moon thou dark'nest both | H |
| And if myself have leave to see | I |
| I need not their light having thee | I |
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| Let others freeze with angling reeds | J |
| And cut their legs with shells and weeds | J |
| Or treacherously poor fish beset | K |
| With strangling snare or windowy net | K |
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| Let course bold hand from slimy nest | L |
| The bedded fish in banks out wrest | L |
| Or curious traitors sleave silk flies | M |
| Bewitch poor fishes' wandering eyes | M |
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| For thee thou need'st no such deceit | N |
| For thou thyself are thine own bait | O |
| That fish that is not catched thereby | P |
| Alas is wiser far than I | P |
John Donne
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