The Damp Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFF GHIIJKLL MMKKAALN| When I am dead and doctors know not why | A |
| And my friends' curiosity | B |
| Will have me cut up to survey each part | C |
| When they shall find your picture in my heart | C |
| You think a sudden damp of love | D |
| Will through all their senses move | E |
| And work on them as me and so prefer | F |
| Your murder to the name of massacre | F |
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| Poor victories But if you dare be brave | G |
| And pleasure in your conquest have | H |
| First kill th' enormous giant your Disdain | I |
| And let th' enchantress Honour next be slain | I |
| And like a Goth and Vandal rise | J |
| Deface records and histories | K |
| Of your own arts and triumphs over men | L |
| And without such advantage kill me then | L |
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| For I could muster up as well as you | M |
| My giants and my witches too | M |
| Which are vast Constancy and Secretness | K |
| But these I neither look for nor profess | K |
| Kill me as woman let me die | A |
| As a mere man do you but try | A |
| Your passive valour and you shall find then | L |
| Naked you have odds enough of any man | N |
John Donne
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