The Broken Heart Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFF GHGHIIJJHKLKMMII NONOMMPP| He is stark mad who ever says | A |
| That he hath been in love an hour | B |
| Yet not that love so soon decays | C |
| But that it can ten in less space devour | B |
| Who will believe me if I swear | D |
| That I have had the plague a year | E |
| Who would not laugh at me if I should say | F |
| I saw a flask of powder burn a day | F |
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| Ah what a trifle is a heart | G |
| If once into love's hands it come | H |
| All other griefs allow a part | G |
| To other griefs and ask themselves but some | H |
| They come to us but us Love draws | I |
| He swallows us and never chaws | I |
| By him as by chain'd shot whole ranks to die | J |
| He is the tyrant pike our hearts the fry | J |
| If 'twere not so what did become | H |
| Of my heart when I first saw thee | K |
| I brought a heart into the room | L |
| But from the room I carried none with me | K |
| If it had gone to thee I know | M |
| Mine would have taught thine heart to show | M |
| More pity unto me but Love alas | I |
| At one first blow did shiver it as glass | I |
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| Yet nothing can to nothing fall | N |
| Nor any place be empty quite | O |
| Therefore I think my breast hath all | N |
| Those pieces still though they be not unite | O |
| And now as broken glasses show | M |
| A hundred lesser faces so | M |
| My rags of heart can like wish and adore | P |
| But after one such love can love no more | P |
John Donne
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